The Ekushey Book Fair is the single most important literary event in Bangladeshi culture that has a proud history going back to the Bangla language movement of 1952. The book fair had been the main congregation of authors and readers in Bangladesh, and a festival that...
Simple narratives can be deadly How I recovered from a terror attack by Bonya Ahmed @ TEDxExeter At the Ekushey Book Fair, in Dhaka, 2015, Rafida Bonya Ahmed and her husband, Avijit Roy, were targeted by Islamist terrorists in a brutal attack, leaving her gravely...
A Poet of Bangladesh’s Past and Present – a Tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 120th Birthday Bangladesh 2019 “Of equality I sing: where all barriers and differences between man and man have vanished, where Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians have mingled...
Toerkoes in Nieuw-West, NL Little is know about the journey of the Turks in the Netherlands and what they have had to put up with to integrate into the Dutch society. It is not just the little known story of a group of immigrants that left their country in search of...
Photo: Isabelle Kubwimana (Youth Think Tank Researcher) The Great Lakes Working Group Meeting Summary: Education and Career Advancement The Great Lakes Diaspora Working Group is one group within The Hague Peace Projects. Recently, the group came together for...
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