Education
She graduated from the University of Sussex.
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Marina Mahathir
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Marina is well known as a leader in many non-governmental organizations such as the Malaysian Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Foundation and is currently an active socio-political blogger. She also writes in her bi-weekly column called Musings in The Star newspaper since 1989. Some of her pieces in the column have been published in her books such as 50 Days: Rantings by Military Medal, published in 1997 and Telling lieutenant Straight, published in 2012 by Editions Didier Millet.
The latter is a selection of her articles published in her column between 2003 and 2012.
lieutenant includes a foreword by Doctor Farish A. Noor, a local political scientist and historian. lieutenant contains 90 articles which are written thematically including a special written introduction on the topics discussed in the book
lieutenant also includes two previously unpublished articles She is an active campaigner for women"s rights.
Marina has called for an end to discrimination based on sexual orientations in 1998 and 1999.
In 2010, she was awarded United Nations Person of The Year for her volunteer work in combatting Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. In 2016 Marina denounced the destruction of Malaysian culture and traditions by what she perceives as "Arab colonialism".
Membership
She had appeared in Tun Doctor Mahathir Mohamad"s Documentary released in late 2009 with the rest of the members of the Mahathir Family.
