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Shahidul Alam

September 2, 2007

Bangladesh Now

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were setup as a crack…
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Shahidul Alam

August 24, 2007

The Barren Banana Tree

Singapore Airlines warned of “protests by university students developing in…
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Shahidul Alam

August 15, 2007

When the Waters Came

It was nearly twenty years ago when I had written…
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August 15, 2007

Portraits of Commitment

Portraits of commitment Why people become leaders in the AIDS…
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Shahidul Alam

July 26, 2007

The South Takes The Picture

New Internationalist editor Dinyar Godrej?s email asking us to participate…
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Shahidul Alam

July 11, 2007

Tales From a Globalising World

Photo: Philip Jones Griffiths Tales From a Globalising World Before…
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June 16, 2007

The Last Goodbye

She would put on a burkha every morning so that…
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May 28, 2007

National Geographic Honourable Mention

Munem Wasif’s photo essay “Belongings” receives Honorary Mention at National…
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May 25, 2007

The Price of Peace

I am the rage I am the storm My path…
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May 11, 2007

The Trojan Horse

Standing in the grand parliament building in Karachi, built by…
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April 30, 2007

Old Dhaka-Belonging

Farish had talked of situations “so full of all qualities…
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April 14, 2007

Happy?s New Year

My first podcast ?No one ever comes back,? she said.…
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April 7, 2007

On Time Delays

With the characteristic swinging movement of the head interspersed with…
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April 3, 2007

Searching for solutions

It was 1985, when Jun Jun and I came over…
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March 26, 2007

1971 as I saw it

Thirty five year ago, even longer perhaps, just a camera…
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March 10, 2007

Justice for Nurjahan

Photographs Shahidul Alam Text Rahnuma Ahmed It was reported in…
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February 27, 2007

From Dili to Delhi

I had just left behind a tense East Timor. No…
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January 2, 2007

I can kill any Muslim

Year end play: The Nuculier God Theatre: The World Set…
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December 28, 2006

Boxing Day Blues

When Jolly’s son Asif asked me to take a portrait…
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December 26, 2006

Reselling Your Soul to the Devil

20th anniversary of Ain O Salish Kendra and National Museum…
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December 14, 2006

The Month of Victory

14th December 1971. The stark dismembered face stared from the…
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December 2, 2006

Judge on the docks

?Come out we won’t shoot?, they had yelled out over…
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November 26, 2006

The Campaign Begins

“We travel to Dhaka, in Bangladesh for a celebration of…
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November 21, 2006

Stretching the Deadline

An extra day! Not unusual in itself, but considering that…
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November 15, 2006

Taking care of the caretaker

It was a dramatic ending to Robert Pledge?s presentation. Via…
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