Books of 2008

As usual, by end of the year I will post the list of books read throughout the year. Textbooks and academic journals were excluded. I'll probably share the huge list of journals in another blog. Anyway, here it is.

Local/Asian interest:
1. Strategic Communications (PsyOps, Information Operations and Public Diplomacy): The Relationship Between Governmental 'Information' in the Post 9/11 World - Mohd Rajb Ghani & Philip Taylor
2. Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Hancur Berantakan Dihantam Gelombang Tsunami - Razali Abdullah
3. Dr. Mahathir's Selected Letters to World Leaders : Introduction and Selected Commentaries by Abdullah Ahmad
4. Social Roots of the Malay Left - Rustam A. Sani
5. Achieving True Globalisation - Mahathir Mohamad (Interview by Dr. Kohei Hashimoto)
6. Mencari Jalan Pulang: Daripada Sosialisme Kepada Islam - Kassim Ahmad
7. Hegemony: Justice; Peace - Dr Chandra Muzaffar
8. Lagi Cerpen-Cerpen Underground - Saharil Hasrin Sanin & Faisal Tehrani
9. Jejak-Jejak di Pantai Zaman - Ungku A. Aziz (dan Pendeta Za'ba)
10. Muhammad Abduh: Riwayat Hidup dan Pemikiran - susunan oleh Khairul Anam Che Mentri & 'Ammar Gazali
11. Saasatul Ibaad - Faisal Tehrani
12. Laksamana Cheng Ho dan Asia Tenggara - Leo Suryadinata et al.
13. The Malays of Patani: The Search for Security and Independence - Nik Anuar Nik Mahmud
14. Hikayat Abdullah - Hamzah Hamdani
15. Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society in the Making - Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim
16. Islam Melayu Komunis: Wawancara Dengan Abdullah C.D., Rashid Maidin, Abu Samah

English/International:
1. People Like Us: How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West - Waleed Aly
2. The Unromantic Orient - Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
3. In The Time of the Mishmish - Alijah Gordon
4. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter
5. Chile, The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup - Ariel Dorfman et al.
6. Who Needs An Islamic State (Second Edition) - Abdelwahab El-Affendi
7. War of Deception: the facts and fallacies about the war in Iraq - Daim Zainuddin
8. Freud and the Non-European - Edward Said

Happy New Year all!

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