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Shahidul Alam

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Time Magazine Person Of The Year 2018. National Geographic Explorer at Large. Photographer, writer, curator, human rights activist.

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Why tensions are rising between Rohingya and Bangladeshis

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By Shahidul Alam
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
Bangladesh’s response to the Rohingya influx has long been described through the language of emergency: shelter, relief, humanitarian duty, and eventual repatriation. In national and international discourse, the crisis is still often treated as temporary, awaiting a political settlement. Yet in Kutupalong, where the world’s largest refugee settlement now stands, that vocabulary no longer captures everyday reality.
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The world has forgotten the Rohingya, but Kutupalong is still paying the price

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By Shahidul Alam
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
Bangladesh’s response to the Rohingya influx has long been described through the language of emergency: shelter, relief, humanitarian duty, and eventual repatriation. In national and international discourse, the crisis is still often treated as temporary, awaiting a political settlement. Yet in Kutupalong, where the world’s largest refugee settlement now stands, that vocabulary no longer captures everyday reality.
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Switzerland's secret vaults

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By Shahidul Alam
| The Financial Express (Bangladesh) Verified
When the Swiss National Bank quietly releases its annual banking statistics, most of the world barely notices. But for the citizens of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, three nations perpetually locked in a cycle of poverty, debt, and underdevelopment, the numbers buried within those pages tell a story of breathtaking economic betrayal.
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