About Maktaba Books
We are Maktaba Books and we are a peer-to-peer community library. Books that have been collecting dust on your shelves are given life again when they are borrowed by one of our readers for free.
Our mission is to increase access to knowledge, especially for books on Islam and Malay Studies, and to further build up the Malay-Muslim community in Singapore.
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The Maktaba Books team
Maktaba Books would just be a random idea scribbled on a piece of tissue and would not have come to life without our passionate volunteer team. Here are the people that have been working behind the scenes to help you get access to free Islamic & Malay books.
The Founding Team
Nurhadi Taha, Operations & Community Manager
Just glad to be able to bring people together whilst learning many things along the way. Here to build Maktaba Books one conversation at a time. In Maktaba Books, he helps a lot with operations and managing the community.
👉🏽Nurhadi’s Linkedin
Izza Haziqah, Events & Programs Manager
A public servant who enjoys pursuing her literary interests and working within her community. She loves meme culture, digital illustration, free classes, and local food. In Maktaba Books, she takes the leads for the events and program (especially the book clubs) while learning a lot of the cool tech stuff that Azrin and Nurhadi does.
👉🏽Izza’s Linkedin
Azrin Hamdan, Growth & Product Manager
A full-time marketer that spends his free time balancing between perfecting his teh tarik and playing ukelele for his cat . At Maktaba Books he handles the no-code tech setup and works together with Nurhadi & Izza in growing Maktaba Books.
👉🏽Azrin's Linkedin
The Book Club Volunteer Team
Our regular book clubs with Wardah Books (Seekers Book Club) & National Library Board (Sama-Sama Book Club) would not be operating so regularly and smoothly without our amzing book club volunteers (arranged alphabetically):
- Ardinny
- Mardhiyah
- Marsiat
- Nursheila
- Nurul Aini
- Safia
- Siti Amirah
- Sitti Hatta
- Zafirah
- Ardinny
- Mardhiyah
- Marsiat
- Nursheila
- Nurul Aini
- Safia
- Siti Amirah
- Sitti Hatta
- Zafirah