As a 19-year-old, Nurul Izzah was thrust into the limelight after former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad sacked her father Anwar Ibrahim in 1998.

During the reformasi period, she was known as its “puteri” or princess.

Two decades later, the Malaysian political landscape witnessed another unprecedented shift with Mahathir and Anwar forming an alliance – a move which Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his supporters claim has extinguished the reformasi spirit.

However, Nurul, now 37 and a mother of two, begged to differ...