MALAYSIAN STUDENT IN EGYPT COLLECTS ALMOST 200 CENTURY-OLD ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
KUALA LUMPUR, Like the Malay proverb, ‘Sambil Menyelam Minum Air’, a Malaysian student in Egypt went on a drive to collect nearly 200 old indigenous Nusantara books (kitab turath) written by Malay scholars from around the 1920s to the 1960s