We are absolutely delighted to announce the literary event of the year – The House of Doors: Tan Twan Eng in Conversation with Karina Robles Bahrin – a real highlight of this year’s George Town Festival. ➽ The event Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng returns home to...
Friday 23 June, 7.30pm We are delighted that Books@Hikayat returns with a special event. It features one of Malaysia’s finest writers, the award-winning Saras Manickam, speaking both to her debut short-story collection and to the wider question of why we, as humans, tell stories. Saraswill be...
TO NOURISH WITH LOVE Manju Saigal and Bettina Chua Abdullah with Dipika Mukherjee Saturday 26 November 2022 4.00–6.00pm Free admission ➽ The book From a childhood lived in India’s cool Mussoorie hills to a cook’s coming of age in the sultry, tropical Malaysian heat. To Nourish with Love encompasses a breadth of...
We are delighted that Books@Hikayat returns with a very special event. It features two of Malaysia’s most eloquent, powerful writers: Karina Robles Bahrin and Preeta Samarasan. Under the deliberately piquing theme – Women on the Verge of a Holy Breakdown – Karina and Preeta will...
Tim Mackintosh-Smith in conversation with Gareth Richards Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Yale University Press) Wednesday 15 January 2020 | 8.00–10.00pm The Book Tim Mackintosh-Smith has written what is widely acknowledged to be the best single-volume history of the Arabs in the English language. Arabs covers...
Eclectic Cultures for All: The Development of the Peranakan Performing, Visual and Materials Arts in Penang Tan Sooi Beng, Grace Choong Ai May and Sarena Abdullah Wednesday 8 January 2020 | 8.00–10.00pm Eclectic Cultures for All is an impressive and innovative study of the unique Peranakan culture of Penang,...