Past Contributors

Datuk Abu Bakar Jaafar is a mechanical engineer by profession, environmental scientist by specialisation, and maritime expert by current pre-occupation. He believes not many have spoken up enough for Mother Earth and for our common good and that it is high time to speak up again. He was director-general of the Department of Environment, Malaysia from 1990 to 1995.

Ahmad Hafidz Baharom is a paradox. He’s an anti-smoking chain smoker, an environmentalist who leaves his office lights on, a centrist who’s a lalang, and a twentysomething yuppie who dreams of being a slacker. He’s a lovable moron whose column, Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel, appears in Big Picture.

Aloysious Mowe, SJ is an International Visiting Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He is a Jesuit priest with an academic interest in Islamic law and history. His column For Heaven’s Sake appears in Big Picture.

Amir Muhammad is a writer, publisher and movie-maker who lives in Damansara, which is more a state of mind than geography. Amir’s Alphabet will have 26 parts but will not be presented in order, as he was never a fan of the concept (or even the Malay boyband) called “A to Z”. But it promises to not mention a single politician, and can be found in Living Culture.

A feature writer and photographer since 1999 with Men’s Review, theSun, The Edge and Off The Edge, Danny Lim is an award-winning photographer and documentary-maker who has also contributed writing and photography to local and international media including MalaysiaVotes, The Malaysian Insider, Malaysiakini and Far Eastern Economic Review. In 2007, he won an award for feature photography from the Society of Publishers in Asia. Danny covered the 2008 Permatang Pauh by-election, and is covering the January 2009 Kuala Terengganu by-election, for this site.

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