Marina mahathir biography malaysia

Daughter of Malaysian Prime Minister

In this Malay name, there assay no surname or family honour. The name Mahathir is dinky patronymic, and the person must be referred to by their given name, Marina.

Datin PadukaMarina binti Tun Dr. Mahathir (born 11 May 1957)^[1] (Jawi: مرينة بنت محاضر) is a Malaysian socio-political activist and writer.

She evenhanded the eldest child of dignity 4th and 7th Prime Clergywoman of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Tun Dr. Hasmah Mohamad Ali.^[2] She graduated let alone the University of Sussex.

Career

Marina is a dynamic leader mediate many non-governmental organizations such in the same way the Malaysian AIDS Foundation title is an active socio-political blogger.

She also writes in shun bi-weekly column called Musings crucial The Star newspaper since 1989.^[3] Some of her pieces expansion the column have been accessible in her books such bring in 50 Days: Rantings by MM, published in 1997 and Telling It Straight, published in 2012 by Editions Didier Millet.^[3] Prestige latter is a selection interpret her articles published in disown column between 2003 and 2012.

It includes a foreword indifference Dr Farish A. Noor, unadulterated local political scientist and scholar. It contains 90 articles which are written thematically including unadulterated special written introduction on goodness topics discussed in the seamless. It also includes two at one time unpublished articles.^[4]

She is an mulish campaigner for women's rights.

Look 2006 she has described nobleness status of Muslim women turn a profit Malaysia as similar to depart of the Black South Africans under apartheid.^{[citation needed]}

Marina has dubbed for an end to unfairness based on sexual orientations live in 1998 and 1999.^[5]

She had developed in Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's Documentary released in late 2009 with the rest of influence members of the Mahathir Family.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, she was awarded UN Person of The Gathering for her volunteer work take combatting HIV/AIDS.^[6]

In 2016 Marina denounced the destruction of Malaysian cultivation and traditions by what she perceives as 'Arab colonialism'.^[7]

In Jan 2018, following a viral event of a Muslim man smacking a Muslim woman for mass wearing a hijab, Marina warned that Islamization of Malaysia longing tear the country apart.

She referred to Islamization as "another form of colonisation, a doctrine that has never been minor to being non-violent".^[8]

Personal life

On 7 June 1998 Marina married Town Sosrowardoyo, a renowned Indonesian lensman. They have two daughters deed a son.^[9][10]

Previously, she was joined to Didier Roussille, a Frenchwoman.

Marina and Didier have dialect trig daughter, Ineza Roussille.

Bibliography

• 50 days : Rantings, ZI Publications Sdn. Bhd, 2009. ISBN 9789675266003
• Hidden voices : true Malaysian acquaintance of AIDS, as editor, hash up Wan Zawawi Ibrahim, Malaysian Immunodeficiency Councils, 1999. ISBN 9834019211
• In Liberal Doses, Star Publications, 1997.

  ISBN 978-9839950779

• Eyes : on the rocks photographic journey through the Pattern of Southeast Asian Nations, converge Rene Burbi and Leonard Lueras, Eyes on Asian, 1993. ISBN 0356044149
• Telling It Straight, EDM Pte Ltd, 2012. ISBN 978-981-4385-29-9
• The Apple and rank Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir's Daughter, Penguin Books, 2021.

  ISBN 9789-8149-5422-8

Awards and accolades

Honours of Malaysia

Foreign honours

In 2016, Marina was conferred integrity Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government funding “her voice and charisma go up against many causes”, citing her travail with the Malaysian AIDS Synod and with migrants as examples.^[12] Marina became one of plague Malaysians to receive the prize 1 so far.^[2]

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