Aminul Hoque

Background

Hoque was born in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. Hoque grew up in a predominantly Bangladeshi neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets.

Education

Hoque graduated from the University of Sussex. He completed two degrees and a Doctor of Philosophy.

Career

Hoque"s father had been living and working in Britain since the early 1960s so the rest of his family joined him in 1980. His early memories were of extreme poverty, overcrowding and experiencing racism. Since October 2008, Hoque has been a lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, and a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University.

Hoque"s writing and work focuses on issues of multicultural Britain, identity, social justice, youth policy, religion and race relations.

In 2015, his book British-Islamic Identity: Third-generation Bangladeshis from East London was published. In February 2015, he contributed in a discussion regarding the three British schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy who left home to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.

In the same month, he spoke at the London Festival of Education, hosted by the Institute of Education. In April of the same year, he was interviewed by Nihal on British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network.

In May of the same year, he contributed on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Today programme.

In July 2015, he was interviewed by Nadia Ali on British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network about his Ramadan memories and the British Bangladeshi community. Hoque"s background is in youth, community and voluntary work. He is an expert in young people and cultural identity.

Most of his community work is in Tower Hamlets.

Hoque is also a freelance journalist and broadcaster.

Achievements

• In 2008, Hoque was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 New Year Honours for his services to youth justice in East London. In 2005, he received a Philip Lawrence Award. In 2004, his radio documentary Islamic Pride was shortlisted for the Sony Awards.

Membership

In 2008, Hoque was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 New Year Honours for his services to youth justice in East London.