About
A Malay of Indian-Chinese origin, Ismail was a teacher, soldier, reporter, unionist before becoming the Straits Times Senior Correspondent in Kuala Lumpur.
During his 15 years stay there, he covered almost all the major events and interviewed almost every politician and social activist of any note.
He began his journalistic career with the New Nation in December 1972 soon after completing his Masters in Social Sciences (Political Science) at the then University of Singapore.
In the late 70s, he was secretary general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists and concurrently vice-president and president of the Confederation of Asean Journalists.
Ismail has two other publications to his credit. They are Problems of Elite Cohesion: A Perspective from a Minority Community (Singapore University Press, 1974) and Race, Politics and Moderation A Study of the Malaysian Electoral Process (Times Books International, 1979)
At the inauguration of the annual Asean Awards in Bangkok in 1987 Ismail won the award in the field of Communication.
For more details, please contact Ismail Kassim:
ibekay @ singnet.com.sg or ibikay @ yahoo.co.uk
Ismail, your website can do with a lot of jazzing up.. for one, choose a different template lah! Add pix etc… break up the monotony!
auntielucia
December 15, 2008 at 8:23 pm
YOUR WRITINGS ARE INTERESTING ! I WANT TO BUY A COPY OF YOUR BOOK. THE MAJOR BOOKSTORES HAVE SOLD OUT THEIR STOCK. I APPROACHED LESLIE TO HELP ME OUT ON THIS NEED. I PREFER TO OWN A PERSONAL COPY RATHER THAN TO BORROW LESLIE’s copy
Best Regards !
cyril gabriel
cyril gabriel
June 12, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Mr Ismail,
I read with delight your book. I will read it again, this time making notes.
TAN SEOW CHER
April 17, 2012 at 9:56 am