Monthly Archives: July 2008

Bangladesh, standing on the edge

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 29, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Preface by Christian Caujolle Expressions, hands, faces, presence and pain, tenderness and anxiety, light and encounters, questions and determination as well as a thousand other things run through Munem Wasif‘s photographs. The way Wasif takes his photographs can … Continue reading →

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Another View

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 26, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Lucia Chiriboga portrays the deep spirituality in Ecuadorian life. Long before Photoshop became commonplace, Lucia began creating complex images by subtle multiple exposures, as a way of weaving multilayered stories of her ancestors. ã Lucia Chiriboga/Drik/Majority World … Continue reading →

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Jamaat’s farce unravels

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 21, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed A national convention of freedom fighters organised by supporters and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. An outright appropriation. The only problem is, Mohammad Ali saw through it. A single … Continue reading →

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Quitting Is Leading Too

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 11, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews If only our own leaders (past and present), Mugabe, Bush and a host of others could learn! At the silver jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence, Madiba had set an example. He had called out to Khaleda (then … Continue reading →

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Paradise Found

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 11, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews It had been a hectic month. An assignment in Sri Lanka, followed by the World Press Photo award ceremony in Amsterdam and Martin Parr’s Sam Presser lecture. It had been many years since Martin had slept in … Continue reading →

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Of Roses and Sexual Harassment

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 7, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews ] by rahnuma ahmed `You should not have written about such sensitive issues in such indecorous language,’ faculty members at Jahangirnagar University (JU) told me and my ex-colleague, Manosh Chowdhury. It was 1997, four years before I … Continue reading →

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