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Professor Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf, formerly the Deputy Rector of Internationalization and Global Network at IIUM, has over 35 years of teaching experience. She is also a bilingual creative writer whose short stories and poems are studied both in Malaysia and abroad. Her research and publication include those on women's writing, prison writing, Islamisation of Knowledge, English Renaissance Literature, and post-colonial studies. Some of her books include Imagined communities revisited: critical essays on Asia-Pacific literature and cultures (co-edited, 2009), Writing a nation: essays in Malaysian literature (co-edited, 2011), Tirai Besi: Antologi cerpen dari penjara (2016), Islamisation of English Literary Studies in the Age of Islamophobia and Westernophobia (co-edited, 2016), Bridge: Emerging writers from Malaysia and Pakistan (co-edited, 2019) and Travel Poetry (2019). A historical novel entitled Wanita Rawa Terakhir is in the pipeline. Prof Faridah won Gold award for leadership by Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences in 2020. She is also actively involved in community services working with urban poor and underprivileged communities and have been organizing forums on Islam and women, Black Lives Matter, Islam, and environmentalism and in the pipeline, topics on Islamic legal framework to protect women's rights and issues on domestic violence and sexual harassment.

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Events

Event

Divine Language : An Art Exhibition On Landscapes and Wanita Rawa Terakhir

Launch by Prof. Dr. Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf

Officiated by Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Razak

Event venue and date : Dar Al-Hikmah Library, IIUM Kuala Lumpur,25th May 2022

Publications

ISLAMICISATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES: IN THE AGE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA AND WESTERNOPHOBIA

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THE ART OF NAMING:A MUSLIM WOMAN'S JOURNEY

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TRAVEL POETRY

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The Bridge:Writings From Emerging Writers From Pakistan And Malaysia (Co-Edited, 2019)

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Antologi Cerpen Di Balik Tirai Besi (An Anthology of Short Stories Behind the Iron Curtain, 2016)

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Imagined Communities Revisited:Critical Essays On Asia-Pacific Literatures And Cultures (Co-Edited, 2011)

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An Islamic Interpretation Of Tragic Hero In Shakespearean Tragedies (2004)

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Colonial To Global: Malaysian Women's Writing In English, 1940s-1990s (Co-Edited, 2003)

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Writing A Nation: Essays In Malaysian Literature (Co-Edited, 2009)

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