IAMM: Showcasing Southeast Asia’s Muslim Heritage

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD visits the Islamic Art Museum Malaysia at Kuala Lumpur on international museum day, walks through the galleries and meets curators. Qatar based The Peninsula newspaper carried this write-up; photographs by MN. Set in the middle of a lush greenish ambiance, a few hundred meters away from Kuala Lumpur old railway station and very close to the majestic national mosque

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A Traveling Mystic in Kelantan

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD meets a Pakistani mystic refugee at a mosque in Kotabharu, Malaysia. From very far, you could make it out that he is an aged Pathan. Clad in a green T-shirt and lunki, he wore a white skull cap. His smile spoke of the painful burdens his soul has managed to traverse through, and absorb, in a graceful way,

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