Aasha Mehreen Amin

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Aasha Mehreen Amin
Born
EducationBachelor of Science
Alma mater Boston College and University of California at Berkeley
OccupationJournalist
Employer The Daily Star
Children1
Parent
Relatives Nurul Amin (grandfather)
Tamizuddin Khan (grandfather)

Aasha Mehreen Amin is a Bangladeshi journalist and writer, former editor of the weekly magazine Star and the former head of the Editorial team at The Daily Star. She is currently joint editor at The Daily Star. [1]

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Biography

Aasha Mehreen Amin was born in Dhaka to a Bengali Muslim family. [2] Her father, Anwarul Amin Makhon, was the second-eldest son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nurul Amin, and the former general manager of BCCI Bangladesh, known for opening Bangladesh Bank's first branch abroad (in London). [3] Her mother, Razia Khan Amin, was an Ekushey Padak-winning writer, poet, and professor at the University of Dhaka, and her maternal grandfather, Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan, was a speaker of the parliament of Pakistan. [4] She studied in Boston College, Massachusetts, United States of America, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1991. [5]

Her grandfather Nurul Amin was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the eighth prime minister of Pakistan from 7 December to 20 December 1971.

Career

She started as a feature writer at The Daily Star, the largest circulated English language newspaper in Bangladesh, in June 1991. She received a journalism fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley where she studied environmental and investigative journalism in 1993. She was the editor of the weekly Star published by The Daily Star, a position she held from 1996 to 2015. She publishes her own satirical column in the magazine called Postscript and a current events column No Strings Attached in the newspaper. She was the deputy editor of the Editorial and Op-ed section of The Daily Star and is now the Joint Editor of The Daily Star. [5] [6]

Personal life

Aasha Mehreen Amin is married and has one child. [5]

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  2. "সাহিত্যিক রাজিয়া খানের জন্মদিন আজ". NewsG24 (in Bengali). 16 February 2022.
  3. Syeda, Maisha (18 December 2021). "Anwarul Amin's memoir revisits the first Bangladeshi bank established abroad". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) .
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