Md Mahmudul Hasan

Md Mahmudul Hasan teaches English and postcolonial literature at International Islamic University Malaysia. Email: mmhasan@iium.edu.my

Muslims in media, and media in Muslim-majority Bangladesh

Anti-Muslim media bigotry is so normalised that even Reuters initially circulated the false information that the slain lawyer was defending the Hindu leader.

1w ago

Chandabaji, mamla banijya can’t be our only future

These two crimes wreaked havoc in the lives of innocent people of our country during the Hasina regime.

3w ago

Critical race theory, Euro-American pride and the genocide in Gaza

Proponents of CRT believe that racist practices are not individual or idiosyncratic, but are inherent in institutions, policies and structures of governance.

3w ago

WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024

What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?

1m ago

Doris Lessing’s message of hope for anti-Zionist protesters

Her message rings true for young anti-Zionist protesters who have been assaulted, arrested and subjected to smear campaigns for advocating for Palestinians.

1m ago

Bangladesh’s writers on Wikipedia: Abbasuddin Ahmed and Humayun Kabir

If such writers lived in, and contributed to the literary legacy of, other countries, I will offer a compromise and propose a hyphenated identity.

2m ago

Writing in the time of autocracy

it is difficult to put a number on those innumerable Bangladeshis who lived in fear or had a peripatetic life during Hasina-led regime.

2m ago

Daring to defend the anti-discrimination student movement

I don’t think Hasina fell because of my writing. Then why do I continue writing?

2m ago
December 5, 2024
December 5, 2024

Muslims in media, and media in Muslim-majority Bangladesh

Anti-Muslim media bigotry is so normalised that even Reuters initially circulated the false information that the slain lawyer was defending the Hindu leader.

November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024

Chandabaji, mamla banijya can’t be our only future

These two crimes wreaked havoc in the lives of innocent people of our country during the Hasina regime.

November 17, 2024
November 17, 2024

Critical race theory, Euro-American pride and the genocide in Gaza

Proponents of CRT believe that racist practices are not individual or idiosyncratic, but are inherent in institutions, policies and structures of governance.

October 28, 2024
October 28, 2024

WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024

What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?

October 22, 2024
October 22, 2024

Doris Lessing’s message of hope for anti-Zionist protesters

Her message rings true for young anti-Zionist protesters who have been assaulted, arrested and subjected to smear campaigns for advocating for Palestinians.

October 3, 2024
October 3, 2024

Bangladesh’s writers on Wikipedia: Abbasuddin Ahmed and Humayun Kabir

If such writers lived in, and contributed to the literary legacy of, other countries, I will offer a compromise and propose a hyphenated identity.

September 24, 2024
September 24, 2024

Writing in the time of autocracy

it is difficult to put a number on those innumerable Bangladeshis who lived in fear or had a peripatetic life during Hasina-led regime.

September 21, 2024
September 21, 2024

Daring to defend the anti-discrimination student movement

I don’t think Hasina fell because of my writing. Then why do I continue writing?

August 19, 2024
August 19, 2024

Victims of autocrats: From Hamza al-Khateeb to Abu Sayed

The comparable patterns in the behaviour of Bashar al-Assad and Sheikh Hasina are staggering.

August 4, 2024
August 4, 2024

Violence against students: A tribute to our little John Hampdens

Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.