Tun Dr Mahathir

This is a Malay name the name Mohamad is a patronymic, not a family name, and the somebody should be referred to by the given name, Mahathir. Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad (pronounced ma? hatir bin mo? hamat? born July 10, 1925) is a retired Malaysian political figure. He was the fourth primary Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysias longest-serving blossoming Minister, and one of the longest-serving leaders in Asia. 1 During his term in office, he was ascribe for engineering Malaysias rapid modernisation. 2 Mahathir is also known for his criticisms towards western and developed countries. 3 During his administration, he was considered to be one of Asias most influential leaders. 4 Mahathir is also noted in the Western world as an outspoken critic of Western-style globalization. 5 Mahathir was born in Alor Setar, Kedah,6 the youngest of nine children7 of a schoolteacher and a housewife. H is father, Mohamad Iskandar, was of Indian origin, being the male child of a Malayalee Muslim (who migrated from Kerala) and a Malay mother, while Mahathirs own mother, queasy Tampawan, was Malay. 8 During World War II, he sold pisang goreng (banana fritters) and other snacks to supplement his family income during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Mahathir go to a Malay vernacular school earlier continuing his education at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Star. Mahathir then attended the King Edward VII Medical College (the predecessor of present-day National University of Singapore) in Singapore, where he edited a medical student magazine called The cauldron he also contributed to the The Straits Times newspaper pseudonymously under the surname Che Det.Mahathir was also President of the Muslim Society in the college. 9 Upon graduation in 1953, Mahathir joined the then Malayan regime service as a medical officer. He married Siti Hasmah Mohd Alia fellow doctor and desig ner classmate in collegeon 5 August 1956, and left government service in 1957 to set up his own private coiffure in Alor Star. Mahathir thrived in private practice, and allowed him to own by 1959 a Pontiac Catalina and utilization an ethnic Chinese chauffeur (at the time, almost all chauffeurs in Malaysia were Malays, owe to the economic dominance of the ethnic Chinese). 10 Some critics have suggested this foreshadowed a posterior hallmark of Mahathirs politics, which focused on the cultivation of such emblems of power. 11 From his hymeneals with Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah binti Haji Mohamad Ali, they have seven children,12 four sons and three daughters Marina Mahathir, Mirzan Mahathir, Melinda Mahathir, Mokhzani Mahathir, Mukhriz Mahathir, Maizura Mahathir and Mazhar Mahathir. 13 Both Mukhriz and Mokhzani 14 be involved in business as well as in politics while their eldest daughter Marina is a prominent topical anesthetic writer and AIDS activist. 15