Malaysia adopts a film censorship system where a statutorily established film censorship board determine exclusion of offensive scene from a film and determine the rating of the film. There were persistent pressures to modify or revamp this censorship system but the alternative is unclear. In order to understand these pressures and consequently the

As the title implies, Will the Middle East Implode? is a book written by renowned scholar on the Middle East, Mohammed Ayoob, to answer the question on the future of one of the most volatile regions in the world. The future of the Middle East is more unpredictable now than ever following the Arab Spring which shook the world in 2011. Rather than ad

Introduction The demographic of most Asian countries is made up of multiple ethnicities or religious groups, a fact that is not lost on those who believe that homogeneity is an important precondition for democracy. Asia is unique because of its vast territory and the peoples inhabiting it, making the project of nation building challenging. The nati

The world religions have been addressed by many intellectuals and scholars from different approaches, such as philosophical, anthropological, phenomenological, sociological, psychological, religious, and so on, where the very essence of religion(s) has been speculated, vilified and distorted. The reading of religions from such approaches, which are

The paper investigates whether there is a significance difference between the practices of discretionary loan/finance loss provisions between Islamic and conventional banks. Same time, the paper tests whether the efficiency may influence the behaviour of discretionary loans/finance loss provisions, taken into consideration other micro and macro var

The legacy of 'Irfan 'Abdul Hamid Fattah, a contemporary Muslim thinker, on the study of religion, is unknown to the world of academia, except to a small group of intellectuals and especially his students. Hence, it is very significant to undertake a study on his contributions towards the Muslim scholarship in study of religion. This paper

Introduction: Praying represents a fundamental activity of daily living in Muslim community. Muslims need to adopt several postures that require deep flexion of the knee and hip to perform this daily obligation. This is a preliminary report of the study on hip and knee range of motion conducted to obtain normative passive and functional range of fl

Human thermal comfort is an indicator for satisfaction of human towards the thermal factor in the environment. This topic may be a subjective matter due to the different characteristics of human to reach a certain level for obtaining the same satisfaction of thermal comfort. Factors that are looked into through this study are surface temperature, a

Hypoglycaemic and antihyperglycemic activity of oil palm Elaeis guineensis fruit extract on normal and Streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats was studied. The oil palm fruit extract (OPF) were administered orally at different concentrations (100, 200 and 500 mg kg-1 b.w.) in fasting and post-prandial rats. Hypoglycaemia was not observed in the group

This paper aims to study the use of the WWW in the learning and teaching of Arabic as a second language. Moreover, it aims to study the combination of Web Assisted Language Learning (WALL) and cognate (words similar in meaning and pronunciation) transfer for Arabic language. In addition, the main goal of this paper is to enhance learning of the Ara