Delwar Hussain

Not to be confused with Dilwar Hussain.
Delwar Hussain
Native name দেলাওয়ার হুসেইন
Born 1970s
Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, England
Residence Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, London, England
Nationality British
Alma mater Goldsmiths College
University of Cambridge
Occupation Writer, anthropologist
Religion Islam
Parent(s) Haji Abdul Jalil (father)
Arful Nessa (mother)
Relatives Rahana Begum (sister)
Hafsa Begum (sister)
Haji Mofiz Ali
(paternal grandfather)

Delwar Hussain (Bengali: দেলাওয়ার হুসেইন) is an English writer, anthropologist and correspondent for The Guardian.

Early life

Hussain born in the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London, England. His grandfather, Haji Mofiz Ali, came to England first, when he was in the Merchant Navy. His father, Haji Abdul Jalil, came in the 1960s, he worked in the garment trade and his mother joined him in the 1970s. Hussain has a younger sister, Rahana Begum, and an elder sister, Hafsa Begum.[1]

When he was born, his family were living in New Road. Then they moved to his current residence of Puma Court in Spitalfields in the late 1980s.[1]

Hussain graduated with a degree in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College before completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Career

Hussain is a writer on South Asian society[2] and occasional correspondent for The Guardian on Bangladeshi affairs. He spent two years conducting interviews in the boundary between India and Bangladesh before writing his first book Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border, published in May 2013. He is researching his second book a social and cultural history of Dhaka city.[1]

Hussain is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland[3] and Chrystal Macmillan Fellow for School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.[4]

Book(s)

Year Title Publisher ISBN
2013 Boundaries Undermined: the Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd 978-1849042321

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Delwar Hussain, Writer & Anthropologist". Spitalfields Life. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Delwar Hussain". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dr Delwar Hossain". University of Southern Queensland. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Delwar Hussain". School of Social and Political Science. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

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