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Samira Sadeque

How to Love a Country: thoughts on Bangladesh’s 50th Independence Day

But isn’t that how one loves a country? Always in between, always in a constant space of questioning and accepting?

Mar 26, 2021

Mar 26, 2021

Published in
The Bangladeshi Identity Project

Creating what I can’t see: Noshin Begum

Noshin is our March Artist of the Month

Mar 20, 2019

Creating what I can’t see: Noshin Begum

Mar 20, 2019

Published in
The Bangladeshi Identity Project

Making of a map: Rohena Alam Khan

Rohena is our December Artist of the Month

Dec 28, 2018

Making of a map: Rohena Alam Khan

Dec 28, 2018

Published in
The Bangladeshi Identity Project

The Bengali organizer behind Alexandria Ocasio’s campaign

Naureen Akhter didn’t prepare for a career in politics. And then, the 2016 elections happened.

Nov 5, 2018

The Bengali organizer behind Alexandria Ocasio’s campaign

Nov 5, 2018

Published in
The Bangladeshi Identity Project

Nadiya Hussain can do better than fetishizing Bangladeshi food to sell it to the Western world

We have one message for Hussain: Stop.

Jul 18, 2018

Nadiya Hussain can do better than fetishizing Bangladeshi food to sell it to the Western world

Jul 18, 2018

Published in
The Bangladeshi Identity Project

Bringing home the sun: Tanwi Nandini Islam’s latest collection is a homage to mother nature and…

When novelist and beauty entrepreneur Tanwi Nandini Islam visited the Bay of Bengal a few years ago, she was so mesmerized by the waters…

Apr 30, 2018

Bringing home the sun: Tanwi Nandini Islam’s latest collection is a homage to mother nature and…

Apr 30, 2018

Published in
The Bangladeshi Identity Project

A film depicting the heroism of a Bangladeshi immigrant…has no Bangladeshis in its cast

When I first moved to New York two years ago, and began exploring the stories of immigrant taxi drivers, Raisuddin “Rais” Bhuiyan’s name…

Mar 23, 2018

A film depicting the heroism of a Bangladeshi immigrant…has no Bangladeshis in its cast

Mar 23, 2018

Published in
The Lily

The silent lives of childhood sexual abuse survivors in America’s South Asian diaspora

Samiha Khan’s story is part of a larger narrative

Dec 19, 2017

The silent lives of childhood sexual abuse survivors in America’s South Asian diaspora

Dec 19, 2017

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Reporting Refugees

Coming Home to a Foreign Land: The Repatriation of Afghan Refugees

Afghans returning home from Pakistan find few prospects for education and jobs

May 20, 2017

Coming Home to a Foreign Land: The Repatriation of Afghan Refugees

May 20, 2017

Published in
Trumplandia Magazine

Taxi Driver

The sun is about to set on Manhattan. The crowd downtown is on a Sunday evening rush with hurried goodbye kisses and last-minute grocery…

May 15, 2017

Taxi Driver

May 15, 2017

Samira Sadeque

Samira Sadeque

Reporting on refugees, south Asian diaspora, migration, mental health, sexual violence. Writer, middle child, and poet. More here: www.samirasadeque.com

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