Mahtab's Story by Libby Gleeson - Goodreads.
Resources for Teachers. Here you'll find videos and talks for teachers. Libby Gleeson Video from Mark Waters - Producer on Vimeo. This video clip is from an educational video series profiling the lives of successful Australian Authors that I directed and post produced for Insight Profile. This educational video series is distributed to schools and libraries throughout Australia and NZ by VEA.
Inspired by a true story. Mahtab was empty. She felt hungry.for water, for her father, for her grandmother, her aunts and uncles, for the trees in the back yard, the cabinet on the wall, the silver and glass objects so lovingly collected, for her mountains, the jagged peaks that cut the sky. Her father was dead. She felt sure of it. She was just a speck of dirt on the floor, drifting through.
British social commentary artist, Mahtab Hussain, uses photography to explore the important relationship between identity, heritage and displacement.
Writing is one of interest Dr. Mahathir until now. In 1945, when he still was schooling, Dr. Mahathir has been the editor of the BDB, the official magazine of Sultan Abdul Hamid College of output. He also served as the editor of a magazine published by the medical college where he was studying. Persistence and passion for expression through writing has led him to produce a variety of.
Mahatb, Soraya, farhad, Mother, fater, Hairy Man, Moufasa, Uncle Wahid, Leila, Aunt Mina, Grandma, Grandpa, Catherine. These are just some of the charcters in Mahtab.
Mahtab was empty. She felt hungry.for water, for her father, for her grandmother, her aunts and uncles, for the trees in the back yard, the cabinet on the wall, the silver and glass objects so lovingly collected, for her mountains, the jagged peaks that cut the sky. Her father was dead. She felt sure of it. She was just a speck of dirt on the floor, drifting through the gap between the boards.
As a young girl, Mahtab’s biggest fear was that her father would force her to marry a man she did not like, as he had done to her sister. Her sister was very unhappy in her marriage. And when Mahtab was eighteen years old her fear was realized. Her father forced her to marry his friend’s son. He was an illiterate youth and Mahtab didn’t.