Dhaka, Bangladesh
$100 - $250 / Day
Journalist and translator with over five years of experience in reporting and opinion-writing focusing on Bangladesh politics and foreign policy. Formerly with The Daily Star, the country’s most widely-circulated English daily. Bylines also in Telegraph, Haaretz, Al Arabiya, The Hindu, Scroll, The Wire and FirstPost.
I tell the story of an organization that took it upon itself to fight against gender-targeted cybercrime in Bangladesh, in the absence of an adequate response from the government.
I discovered that the city corporation was planning to erect buildings in a place where a marginalized community was living for decades. The proposed housing plan would have leave out hundreds of existing residents.
I took an exclusive interview of Shahidul Alam, an internationally celebrated photographer whose detainment caused widespread global anger, after he was released on bail.
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