Nayeemul Islam Khan
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Nayeemul Islam Khan is the editor of the daily Amader Shomoy, which has been published in Dhaka
Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

 since 2007. He also published a weekly, Khoborer Kagoj, in which Mymensingh
Mymensingh
Mymensingh , pronounced moy-mon-shing-haw, is a city of Bangladesh situated on the river Brahmaputra. It is the headquarters of the administrative unit Mymensingh District. Mymensingh is the anglicized pronunciation of the original name Momenshahi, referring to a ruler called Momen Shah. The cadet...

 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
Comilla
Comilla is a city in south-eastern Bangladesh, located along the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. It is the administrative center of the Comilla District, part of the Chittagong Division. The Eastern Wing of Bangladesh Highway Police is located in 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
Stamford University
Stamford University Bangladesh is a private university in Bangladesh. It was established in 1994 by the Private University Act. Previously it was known as a Stamford college group, later it was upgraded as private university of Bangladesh in 2002 and appeared as Stamford University Bangladesh....

 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.

In Taslima's KA

In the third volume of her autobiography Ka
Ka
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, 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). 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)

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