Tag Archives: People

The spy who came in from Dhaka

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TweetIt has been six years and Kabul has changed. My luggage was through booked from Bonn, via Munich and Dubai. Three flights in three different airlines with the tickets bought separately. Miraculously it arrived safely. The banks at the airport … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 2, 2012
Posted in Bangladesh, culture, Photography, Shahidul Alam | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments

American Activists and the Birth of Bangladesh

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Tweet Subscribe to ShahidulNews Podcast Play in New Window | Download Forty years ago this month, the country of Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan. Then-President Richard Nixon supported Pakistan during the war because he wanted to prove the US would … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 2, 2012
Posted in 1971, Bangladesh, Colonialism, culture, Democracy, Education, Elections, Genocide, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Killings, Law, media, Migration, Occupation, politics, Resistance, South Asia, USA | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change?

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TweetSubscribe to ShahidulNews By Johann Hari The Independent Friday, 4 February 2011 Very few British people would beat up a poor person to get cheaper petrol. But our governments do it all the time. Why? The old slogan from the … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 11, 2011
Posted in Capitalism, Colonialism, exploitation, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, security | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Tracing Freedom

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TweetSubscribe to ShahidulNews In late 2008 and early 2009 the Norwegian photographer Tom Hatlestad spent four months driving overland between Norway and Bangladesh. Along the way, he asked a hundred people to define freedom. Some of them are featured in … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 18, 2010
Posted in Bangladesh, Photography, Photojournalism, World | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

When the Waters Came

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Tweet It was nearly twenty years ago when I had written this. After one of my first photojournalistic assignments: What does one photograph to depict a flood? A submerged house, a boat on a highway, people wading in water? As … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 15, 2007
Posted in Bangladesh, culture, disasters, Human rights, Photography, Photojournalism, Photojournalism issues, Shahidul Alam, South Asia | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Sitting on a man’s back

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Tweet Three bombs had gone off the day before, and they weren’t comfortable about me walking on my own in the streets of Kabul. The driver insisted that he gave me a lift. The suggestion that a particular hill not … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 9, 2006
Posted in exploitation, Global Issues, Governance, Imperialism, Islam, People, politics, Shahidul Alam, Terrorism, war on terror, World | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments

The First Element

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Tweet Subscribe to ShahidulNews Poem on Waterwall at exhibition “The First Element” at the National Art Gallery Malaysia. Water Fluid, flowing, feeling, water Life, death, birth, union, water Meandering, shaping, eroding, changing, water Cosmos, clouds of gas, the ice age, … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 10, 2003
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Brahmaputra Diary

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Tweet Subscribe to ShahidulNews Multimedia version with video and photographs A gentle trickle A surging river A gentle plain A delta Four long years Three thousand kilometres Cormorants, sea gulls Sparrows at dusk A flurry of wings Moody clouds La … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 7, 2003
Posted in Bangladesh, Photography, Photojournalism, Shahidul Alam, Sites of Drik and Pathshala photographers | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Changing their destiny

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TweetSubscribe to ShahidulNews www.newint.org/issue287/contents.html Letter from Bangladesh Changing their destiny Shahidul Alam travels with the poor who chase a dream to distant lands. They all have numbers. Jeans tucked into their high-ankled sneakers. They strut through the airport lounge, moving … Continue reading →

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by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 1, 1997
Posted in Bangladesh, Capitalism, Colonialism, culture, exploitation, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Shahidul Alam, South Asia, World | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment