Ramla Wahab-Salman

Ramla Wahab-Salman is a historian and Associate Director at the American Institute for Lankan Studies in Colombo. She holds a BA from LSR College, Delhi and an MA from SOAS, London.

Planning Colombo: Tracing the vision of Colombo as a garden city

By 1918, H1N1 influenza A, more commonly known as the Spanish flu, had claimed the lives of between 20 to 50 million people globally, many of them between the ages

By Ramla Wahab-Salman

/ 28 Sep 2021

Planning Colombo: Tracing the vision of Colombo as a garden city

Reading the ‘Star of Islam’: The story of a Ceylonese press on the cusp of World War II

Maritime trade routes passing through the ports of Sri Lanka helped spur the growth of pan-Islamic consciousness within the island's Muslim communities. Researcher and historian Ronit Ricci marks

By Ramla Wahab-Salman

/ 17 Jul 2019