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Zainah Anwar is a prominent Malaysian non-governmental organisation leader, activist and Muslim feminist.She was the head of Sisters in Islam for over two decades before stepping down. Zainah was born in Johor, to her father, Tan Sri Haji Anwar bin Abdul Malik and mother, Saodah bte Abdullah, a housewife. Her father was credited as the man who gave the United Malays National Organisation or UMNO its name – initially United Malays Organisation. This was at a meeting in Batu Pahat when seven Umno founders from Johor Baru met Datuk Onn Jaafar to call for a unification of all the disparate Malay nationalist groups at the time. He later became Onn's private secretary when Onn became Johor's Mentri Besar.)

The Best Poem Of Zaina Anwar

My Mother's Hands

I will always remember her hands,
small with rounded palms,
like the softly yielding flesh
of a ripe summer tomato.
Her nails are beautifully shaped
in a natural carving as if
sculpted by God in a special moment
of tender care for his trembling Eve.

I will always remember the strength
of her hands curled into tight fists
as she has kneaded
day after day,
dough for columns of flat bread,
with knuckles sharply protruding
and pale with the force
of her undefeated will.

I will always remember them burning
with life,
powerful circuits
of energy connecting
through the blue-green network
of her sombre veins;
I have always maintained,
a delicate fascination,
for the dimpled beauty of my mother's hands.

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