Rahad Abir
@rahadabir
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Author of the novel, Bengal Hound. MFA at Boston University. Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia. 2024 Georgia Author of the Year Award.
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Joined January 2010
"That male organ was the main point of the Partition. India had been partitioned on the grounds of circumcision. That was the issue Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi had fought for. And thus the two nations were born. One circumcised. Another uncircumcised."--from Bengal Hound
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The festival of sacrifice was never fun for us. We didn’t—or couldn’t—afford to buy a four-legged offering. A cow or goat? https://t.co/fMLPqhiHse
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Qurbani Eid, a short nonfiction by Rahad Abir
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Husseini Dalan in Dhaka, one of the places in the Bangladeshi capital that really gives you a sense of what Dhaka once was...
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13-14 September, 2025, SALA (South Asian Art & Literature Festival) https://t.co/i7o8SnH1sx
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UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies are pleased to host a panel discussion showcasing new English-language fiction from Bangladesh by Rahad Abir and Sarah Anjum Bari. https://t.co/VIHQOKGUFi
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UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies are pleased to host a panel discu...
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His students included Jhumpa Lahiri, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for “Interpreter of Maladies,” a collection of stories, and Ha Jin, whose novel “Waiting” won a National Book Award in 1999.
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His Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University.
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From Globe obituary veteran Bryan Marquard. Leslie Epstein, author and creative writing professor whose novels drew from his family’s storied legacy, dies at 87
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Mr. Epstein, who formerly directed Boston University's creative writing program, "inspired a kind of idealism and integrity with literature," said writer Ha Jin.
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Sri Lanka's capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands which are teeming with life. https://t.co/ShpYb82tee
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Sri Lanka's capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands which are teeming with life.
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Late in the winter of 1959, poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were both auditing a creative writing seminar at Boston University led by Robert Lowell. https://t.co/cmg6oZkZRK.
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The dynamic of the seminar briefly held Plath, Sexton, and Lowell together in a tight orbit. Sexton caught Plath’s attention by fearlessly taking up personal aspects of her own life as her subject,...
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"Mr Jaishankar, it is India who must decide what kind of relationship it wants with Bangladesh!" https://t.co/uVc5GCxk9b
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It would behoove you to make an effort to genuinely understand the aspirations of your neighbours and not wield a big brotherly cane, like you have become used to
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Truly honored to have my short story "Mr. Moti" included (excerpts) in the secondary school textbook, "English for Today," in Bangladesh. Great to know that all 9th and 10th graders will be reading it. Heartfelt thanks to the NCTB selection committee. https://t.co/XlrwGhS6IF
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Delighted to see Bengal Hound listed as one of the "most cherished reads of 2024" in The News on Sunday. https://t.co/yYwiX8Adh9
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Join us for a brand new year of virtual author talks! Our Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers. Learn More about our January guests: @rahadabir, Rita Omokha, @nativemindstate, @evanrail, and Souvankham Thammavongsa! https://t.co/gE0NforX20
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"Bengal Hound" reviewed in Asiatic journal. Thank you! https://t.co/yKYjtezRHo
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100 Best Books of the 21st Century https://t.co/mLmZAXGi6v
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As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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Do Not Look at Girls "Do not look at girls, your dad warns you at the beginning of your teenage years. The first accidental glance is okay, he says. The second is sin." https://t.co/2COsO6EehU
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11 Books by Bangladeshi Voices Beyond Its Borders https://t.co/FXcnicWtr8
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electricliterature.com
These books carry Bengali storytelling traditions to the far flung locales of its diaspora
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Today thousands of devotees visit the shrine of the 13th century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya at Delhi every day, but not many people are even aware that the same complex also houses the grave of Mughal princess Jahanara Begam.--The Mughal Aviary @HuqSabiha
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Western readers tend to be unfamiliar with the vast array of Bangladeshi literature. This list is here to change that, with books that carry Bengali storytelling traditions to the far flung locales of its diaspora. (@wordsinteal)
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These books carry Bengali storytelling traditions to the far flung locales of its diaspora
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