Background
Nasreen, Taslima was born on August 25, 1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Daughter of Ali Royab.
(Translation of a classic Bengali novel, on Bangladesh, pa...)
Translation of a classic Bengali novel, on Bangladesh, partition, on women, family, politics. By the winner of a major UNESCO prize for promotion of tolerance and non-violence. We also distribute her "My Childhood" and "Selected Columns".
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Nasreen, Taslima was born on August 25, 1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Daughter of Ali Royab.
Doctor of Medicine, Mymensingh Medical College, Dhaka University, 1984. Doctorate (honorary), Ghent University, Belgium, 1995. Doctorate (honorary), American University of Paris, France, 2005.
Gynecologist, 1986—1993. Columnist Ajker Kagoj, 1989. Researcher into women's rights in Islamic countries, Harvard University, 2003—2004.
Co-signed MANIFESTO: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism with eleven others in response to Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, 2006. Books banned in Bangladesh and Indian state of West Bengal. Fatwa (death threat) pronounced against her, 1993.
Left Bangladesh to live in self-imposed exile in Sweden, then Germany, United States of America, and France, since 1994.
(Translation of a classic Bengali novel, on Bangladesh, pa...)
(282pages. in12. Broché.)