About Gongkapas Media
Gongkapas Media
Gongkapas Media is founded by Dina Zaman, writer and one of the founders of IMAN Research.
Her years in the Malaysian media and at IMAN Research has led her on a more personal career path: creating content that comes from the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, to a national and regional audience. She also is researching on East Coast royal history about her female ancestors.
(Photo: Pura Tanjung Sabtu in its heyday)
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About Dina
Dina Zaman is a Kuala Lumpur-based writer and researcher. She is a co-founder of IMAN Research, a think tank focusing on socio-political and security matters, and a founding member of the Southeast Asian Women Peacebuilders.
She has written extensively for the Malaysian media and is currently a regular contributor to The Star, Malaysia, and The Jakarta Post. Her latest passion projects revolve around Malaysia’s East Coast Royal History.
Dina is the author of three non-fiction titles - I am Muslim (Silverfish Publishing), Holy Men, Holy Women (SIRD) and Malayland. King of the Sea Redux will be published by Clarity Publishing. Malayland will be co-published this year by Faction Press & Ethos Books. She is represented by Sivagurunathan & Chua Literary Agency.
About Sivagurunathan & Chua Literary Agency
Dina is represented by Sivagurunathan & Chua Literary Agency. Please contact her agent Devina Sivagurunathan at devina@litagencysc.com for publications and publicity matters.
Gongkapas Pictures
Works in progress
- Desta: A Journey of Longing, supported by MDEC Malaysia
(Photo: Dina Zaman, 2011)
Dina has been writing about religion in the public sphere for almost 20 years. The gallery you see is some of her personal photos taken during fieldwork.
Published Works
I Am Muslim (Silverfish Books 2007)
King of The Sea (Silverfish Books 2012)
King of The Sea (Silverfish Books 2012)
Based on the writer’s column in Malaysiakini.com, I Am Muslim the book was a hit among many Malay-Muslims.
IAM
King of The Sea (Silverfish Books 2012)
King of The Sea (Silverfish Books 2012)
King of The Sea (Silverfish Books 2012)
The writer’s homesickness and longing for her hometown, Terengganu, inspired this whimsical anthology of short stories.
Holy Men Holy Women (SIRD 2017)
King of The Sea (Republished, 2024)
King of The Sea (Republished, 2024)
The writer embarked on a spiritual journey around the whole of Malaysia, asking Malaysians what it meant to be a believer.
King of The Sea (Republished, 2024)
King of The Sea (Republished, 2024)
King of The Sea (Republished, 2024)
King of The Sea is now on sale, with three new stories: The Last Indian Man Standing in Kuala Terengganu; The Treasure Hunt and The Birthday Cake. The book is published by Clarity Publishing. You may purchase the book here too: https://www.clarity8.com/shopshop/en/fiction/66-king-of-the-sea-dina-zaman.html
november 2024
Malayland (2024)
Part memoir, part observation, this book explores what it means to be Malay and Muslim in a Muslim-dominated country that is still insisting on more Malay-Muslim rights. As post-colonial Malaysia re-imagines itself, the country also questions its identity as it grapples with the state-sanctioned idea of being Malay. Faction Press and Etho
Part memoir, part observation, this book explores what it means to be Malay and Muslim in a Muslim-dominated country that is still insisting on more Malay-Muslim rights. As post-colonial Malaysia re-imagines itself, the country also questions its identity as it grapples with the state-sanctioned idea of being Malay. Faction Press and Ethos Publishing will co-publish the book and Malayland will be out in November 2024.
This book is jointly published by Faction Press and Ethos Publishing Singapore.
Malayland is in all bookstores in Malaysia and Singapore, this November 2024.