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Author: Ramla Wahab-Salman

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Colombo, Groundviews at 10, Identity, Language, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Ceylon’s First Moor Journalist

The Muslim community is at the centre of news each day- rarely for the right reasons. The unfolding of the Islamic State has shown the worst ways in which  religious identities could…

Ramla Wahab-Salman Ramla Wahab-Salman on 12/19/201612/19/2016
Colombo, Galle, Identity

Legend along Littoral Landscapes: Tales from the Muslim World

The island of Sri Lanka, since ancient times, has featured prominently in the navigational and spiritual cartography of the Muslim world. The word of Persian origin ‘Sarandip ’ (سرانديپ) has long captured…

Ramla Wahab-Salman Ramla Wahab-Salman on 02/03/2016
Development, Economy, Foreign Relations, International

A rond-point for vessels plying the Indian Ocean: Sri Lanka in Arab cartographic tradition

Source: Picture Collection, Mid-Manhattan Library, The New York Public Library Preserving Sri Lanka’s interests and ensuring her prosperity in a global trading network has demanded a cautious and balanced foreign policy through…

Ramla Wahab-Salman Ramla Wahab-Salman on 09/18/2015
Colombo, Religion and faith

Kartel: an evolving mixed Muslim heritage in Slave Island

  Branching from a walking tour of Slave Island conducted at Colomboscope 2015, the following article is a collection of ideas and stories shared over the festival backed by a personal interest…

Ramla Wahab-Salman Ramla Wahab-Salman on 08/27/201508/27/2015
Culture, Galle, Identity, International, Peace and Conflict, Religion and faith

Prince Salie: A story of sapphires and steamships

Mohammed Usuff Mohammed Salie was born in 1877.  He was the grandson of Mohamed Usuff, the Alim of the Kandawatte mosque in Galle, who was responsible for handwriting a Quran he knew…

Ramla Wahab-Salman Ramla Wahab-Salman on 07/11/201307/11/2013

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