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Kam Raslan | Umapagan Ampikaipakan | Cora Knoblauch

13-Oct-18 17:00

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We return to the wonders of world culture through the lens of the esteemed ABOC trio led by Kam Raslan. We welcome a special guest from Berlin, Germany; journalist Cora Knoblauch who is in town as part of the Goethe Institut's CloseUp Programme - diving headfirst into her snapshot of multicultural Malaysia with questions surrounding the hijab. Uma asks the table the price we pay for culture from a sustenance perspective. But we kick it off with something light and simple, like we always do, as Kam tries to break down the complexities surrounding a dish like the Hainanese chicken rice.

Produced by: Ali Johan

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Categories: Film, History, People and Places

Tags: Hainanese Chicken Rice, Hijab, Islamophobia, Modesty, Cultural Appropriation, Cultural festival, Sustainability, GoeTheCloseUp, GoeTheInstitut, the cooler lumpur festival, rendang, Berlin,

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