Day 4 - Hot Off the Press
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| Can you spot the Bey? |
I currently work at AMG International, a Malaysian publishing house that produces closed distribution (in-house) business magazines and corporate publications. We have a sizable stable of magazines that we produce content for and then send off to print a few times every month (one of them pictured above, a magazine for the country's electricity utility).
Right before we do, my Malay co-workers at the Graphics Department hold up the proofs to me in mock seriousness and say, "Du3a2? Bismillah?" to which I nod, signaling my approval and acceptance of full responsibility for any costly error that might just bite us all in the ass when thousands of copies are finally in print.
In many ways, the things we do here as Southeast Asian Muslims, the Arabic words we say in worship, look and sound like parodies or parroting of the Arab (Saudi?) Islamic culture, but in many other ways, they're not. It's the Asean Muslim brand of Islamic culture, branched off delicately from the center, and here, it's real.
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