Title: OPERATION NASI KERABU – Finding Patani in an Islamic Insurgency
Author: Zan Azlee
Publisher: ZI Publications
Year: 2011
Price: RM25 (includes a free DVD of the documentary film THE LIFE & TIMES OF AN ISLAMIC INSURGENCY)
Synopsis: The news from Patani is like a movie: smoke, bombs, a near civil war. Yet just over our northern border, the people are Muslim, Bahasa-speaking, baju-wearing Malays, just like us. With this in mind, documentary-maker Zan Azlee set off to find the real Patani, trying to seperate the kedai kopi from the Humvees, the gunfights from the nasi kerabu. It’s hard to make new friends and man a camera while looking over your shoulder for suicide bombers. But he was determined to ask the question: how do people live their lives in a warzone? With his resulting film banned for political reasons, this is Azlee’s first chance to share what he found.
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[...] old Kelab Seni Filem buddy who works at The Star wrote a nice article about me and ‘Operation Nasi Kerabu‘. Allan Koay is not a bad writer at all! But it definitely helps when you have an interesting [...]
Pingback by A feature on me and ‘Operation Nasi Kerabu’ in The Star… and I look damn sexy! « FAT BIDIN MEDIA July 5, 2011 @ 1:05 pmRead it and love it, A correction though, “tuak” there is not like tuak in Borneo, it is not a ‘sinful drink’ as you write in your book. It is not even a rice wine, it is just an innocent “air nira kelapa or nipah”. Slight language difference could lead to a negative perception my friend
Comment by Patani descend November 16, 2011 @ 4:41 am
Thanks so much for your support! Re the tuak… actually it is alcohol. The air nira kelapa has been fermented. It’s the same with tapai lah. But biasa lah… culture is strong so the people there see nothing wrong with it. Which is fine by me! Heheh! 
Comment by fatbidin November 17, 2011 @ 10:04 am