As for learning khat, Jawi or Chinese calligraphy in school, there is nothing religious or racial about it. Unfortunately, in Malaysia’s polarised society, matters of this nature can easily be ...

Faisal Tehrani says the controversy about the learning of Jawi and khat in schools is symptomatic of Malaysia’s polarised education system.

Even if Jawi is already on our currency used for everyday trade. If there were talk about how Jawi would be appropriate in this time and age, that khat was an outdated form of art, I would say the ...

ALOR SETAR, June 22 (Bernama) -- A former Geography and Cartography lecturer at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah took on the role of elevating the use of Jawi writing through the art of Islamic ...

A group calling itself Gabungan Seni Khat Action Team (Sekat) will be organising a National Jawi Congress set to take place one day after Dong Jiao Zong's Chinese Organisations Congress session to ...

KLANG, Aug 1 (Sin Chew Daily) – Deputy education minster Teo Nie Ching said the incorporation of Jawi calligraphy or Khat in Standard 4 Bahasa Melayu textbooks was still at the consultation ...

SHAH ALAM - A viral video featuring a non-Muslim teacher skillfully teaching the Jawi script to her students has garnered widespread praise, highlighting the growning recognition of Jawi as a form ...

PETALING JAYA: Parents of Year Four pupils in vernacular schools will get to decide if their children will be taught the Jawi script. The Education Ministry said that it was decided during the ...

Moreover, students will not be tested for their Jawi mastery. “The six pages of content only provides a very basic introduction to Khat. “We can actually talk about this issue sensibly.

I WAS a bit perturbed by the accusation that the Jawi alphabet and stylistic khat writing is a sign of Islamisation. From my knowledge, the Jawi alphabet is an adaptation of the Arabic alphabet to ...

Chinese dissent in Malaysia over Jawi script in schools raises alarm in Mahathir’s government. ... you will get a reaction,” he said of the opposition to khat being taught.

A Malaysian court on Friday banned a planned weekend protest, organised by a powerful lobby group for the country’s Chinese-medium schools, that officials had warned could stir up ethnic strife ...