Delwar Hussain

Delwar Hussain () is an English writer, anthropologist and correspondent for The Guardian.

Early life

Hussain born in the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London, England. His grandfather, Haji Mofiz Ali, came to England first, when he was in the Merchant Navy. His father, Haji Abdul Jalil, came in the 1960s, he worked in the garment trade and his mother joined him in the 1970s. Hussain has a younger sister, Rahana Begum, and an elder sister, Hafsa Begum.

When he was born, his family were living in New Road. Then they moved to his current residence of Puma Court in Spitalfields in the late 1980s.

Hussain graduated with a degree in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College before completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Career

Hussain is a writer on South Asian society and occasional correspondent for The Guardian on Bangladeshi affairs. He spent two years conducting InterViews in the boundary between India and Bangladesh before writing his first book BOUNDARIES Undermined: The Ruins of ProgresS on the Bangladesh-India Border, published in May 2013. He is researching his second book a social and cultural history of Dhaka city.

Hussain is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland and Chrystal Macmillan Fellow for School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

Book(s)

See also

• British Bangladeshi
• List of British Bangladeshis

External links

• Delwar Hussain on theguardian.com
• Delwar Hussain on openDemocracy.net
• Delwar Hussain, Writer & Anthropologist. Spitalfields Life. 22 July 2013

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