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21st May 2009, 10:24 PM
“Reformasi changed everything”
21 May 09 : 8.00AM
By Zedeck Siew
zedecksiew@thenutgraph.com
DURING the March 2008 general election, election campaign posters for Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) parliamentary candidate Nurul Izzah Anwar showed her smiling. Wreathed in a glowing aura, she seemed to be gazing into a bright Malaysian future.
Now the parliamentarian for Lembah Pantai, she is still seen as a poster-child for Pakatan Rakyat (PR)'s younger set of politicians. Her test — forging a distinct voice from under opposition leader and father Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim — is emblematic of the challenge her entire generation is facing.
The Nut Graph talks to Nurul Izzah about growing up as Anwar's daughter, the pressing issues in Malaysia today, and what she thinks the country she has already inherited should be, going forward. More… (http://www.thenutgraph.com/reformasi-changed-everything)
21 May 09 : 8.00AM
By Zedeck Siew
zedecksiew@thenutgraph.com
DURING the March 2008 general election, election campaign posters for Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) parliamentary candidate Nurul Izzah Anwar showed her smiling. Wreathed in a glowing aura, she seemed to be gazing into a bright Malaysian future.
Now the parliamentarian for Lembah Pantai, she is still seen as a poster-child for Pakatan Rakyat (PR)'s younger set of politicians. Her test — forging a distinct voice from under opposition leader and father Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim — is emblematic of the challenge her entire generation is facing.
The Nut Graph talks to Nurul Izzah about growing up as Anwar's daughter, the pressing issues in Malaysia today, and what she thinks the country she has already inherited should be, going forward. More… (http://www.thenutgraph.com/reformasi-changed-everything)