Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in PowerOver 50 years Anwar Ibrahim was a Malay nationalist student, a motor of Islamic activism, a co opted rising star in government, an anointed successor to the premiership, a persecuted reformist, and a revitalized Opposition Leader. He disdained comfortable irrelevance to rouse indignant masses against the regimes of five prime ministers. In September 1998 he was a political prisoner with a blackened eye. In November 2023 he became the Prime Minister.

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After he organised a protest against the Vietnam War in 1972