Nayeemul Islam Khan

Nayeemul Islam Khan (Bengali: নাঈমুল ইসলাম খান ) is the editor of the daily Amader Shomoy, which has been published in Dhaka since 2007. He also published a weekly, Khoborer Kagoj, in which Mymensingh poet and gynaecologist Taslima Nasreen wrote a weekly column. Nayeemul published personal essays in Amader Shomoy in 2007.

Life

Born on 21 January 1958, Nayeemul Islam Khan is from Comilla. He was the eldest among the 6 children of Nurul Islam Khan, a politician and lawyer, and Nurun Nahar Khan, their mother. He studied at the Comilla Zilla School and passed SSC examination, then went to Dhaka University and obtained his B.A and M.A in Mass Communication & Journalism. In 2007 he joined the Stamford University as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. He married poet and physician Taslima Nasreen in 1990; they divorced in 1991. He worked with the Bangladesh Center for Development and Journalism and married Nasima Khan. He joined the daily newspaper Ajker Kagoj, but later started his own daily, Amader Shomoy.

Career in journalism

His first publication was the weekly Khoborer Kagoj in 1980s. His debut as editor was in a short-lived monthly magazine, the Shomoy, published for a few months in 1982. His second publication was the daily Dainik Bhorer Kagoj. Both of these were non-traditional in style and tone. In 2002 he joined the Ajker Kahoj as Advisory Editor. In 2003 he took an abortive attempt to publish another daily under the title Notundhara.^[1]

In Taslima's KA

In the third volume of her autobiography Ka, Taslima described Nayeemul as an unimpressive figure. He insisted that she have an abortion, as he suspected that the child she was carrying was not his own. After this they were soon divorced.

In Amader Shomoy

He quit the Dainik Bhorer Kagoj in 1992 to run the non-governmental organization (NGO) Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communication (BCDJC).^[2] He started to publish the four-page daily Amader Shomoy in 2007.

Publications

• Aprotiruddhyo Utthan (Tr. Tale of Ten Undaunted Reporters)
• State of Press Freedom in Bangladesh 2005
• Sangbadpatre Sthaniya Sarkar Bisoye Sera Lekha Sankalan ( A compilation of Best Articles on Local Government in Newspapers)
• Bangladesher Dosh Shohore Sangbadikotai Nari (Tr. Women in Journalism in 10 Towns of Bangladesh)
• Maddhyam 2004 (Tr. Bangladesh Media Directory 2004)
• Sthanio Sarker O Sangbadikota (Tr. Local Government & Journalism)
• Union Parishad Election 2003 in Newspaper
• Nobishi Protibedon
• Gender, Media and Journalism
• Bangladesher Sangbadpatre Smaraniya Protibedan (Tr. Memorable Reports in Bangladesh Newspapers)
• Bangladesh Journalism Review : Women and Media
• Anusandhani Sangbadikata (Tr. Investigative Journalism)

References

1. ^ http://www.amadershomoy.com/online/content/2009/01/21/news0701.htm
2. ^ www.mediasouthasia.org/Dhakaworkshopforwebsite020604.htm

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Name	Khan, Nayeemul Islam
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