About our President

        (Dr. Showkat Ali, President, BA)

Dr. Showkat Ali is a faculty of Long Island University. (He is a current President of Bangladesh Journalists and Writers Association of North America inc) Dr. Ali, President of Bangladeshi American for OBAMA Inc., is a prominent Bangladeshi American intellectual. He is an economist, educationist, columnist, and author. He is an effective Bangladeshi community leader, here in New York and a prolific organizer. He published six books on different subjects

http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Investment-Economy-FinancialAmerican/dp/0815330731/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214459059&sr=1-1

His book “Capital flows, Saving and Investment in the World Economy, (ISBN:0-8153-3073-1, New York, London-Japan, 1998) has been accepted as a reference at the University level around the world. He is heavily involved in different Asian social and political organizations. He is a OBAMA intellectual and a long time OBAMA supporter. Dr. Showkat Ali is a direct student of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006 and the founder of Worldwide Microfinance.He lives New York with his wife and children.

Email: showkat3@aol.com

      About Our VP

                                (Abu Taher)

Mr. Abu Taher is the Executive Editor of the Weekly Bangla Potrica, one of the most circulated Bangla newspapers in New York . He also editor of News World, a global news agency based in New York.

Browse Mr. Taher News World from the link below:

         http://www.newsworld24.com/

Taher  won numerous awards for his life long contribution in journalism. On November 21, 2006 he won the First National Ethnic Media Award in the category of Women’s issue for his future about a women entrepreneur.  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton opened the First National Ethnic Media Awards with a powerful tribute to ethnic media's role in American journalism. 

Sen. Clinton  said, "Ethnic media represent the way the new Washington needs to connect to the new America .” Clinton headed a cast of Washington heavyweights who participated in the event, including Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, District of Columbia Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and others. Abu Taher lives in New York with his wife and daughter. Email: abutaher@gmail.com      

   Panel of Executives

President:  Dr. Showkat Ali

Secretary General: Rashidul Bari

Vice President: Dr. M. A. Quasem Professor

Vice President:  Mr. Abu Taher

Queens President: Mesbahuddin Abdullah Kabol

Brooklyn President: Hasan Ali

Legal Adviser :Attorney MahbuburTalukdar 

Legal Consultant: Attorney Shack Salim

Chief Organizer:  Advocate Shahidul Islam

Organizing Coordinator : Dr. Wadud Bhyan

New Jersey Organizer : Muhammad Abdul Hai

Brooklyn Organizer: Abbas Uddin Dolal

NYU Organizer : Mrs. Meri Taher

York College Org.: Chowdhory Ahsan Nahid

Executive member: Nazmul Huda

Executive member: Zahirul Islam

Executive member: Nafiul Islam Panna

Executive member: Abu Syed

Executive member: Abu Sufian

Executive member: Abul Baser

Executive member: Sharafat Siddique

Executive member: Abul Baser

Executive member: Amon Hossain

Executive nember: Kazi Pervez Sattar

Executive Member: Imaz Chowdhory

                   About our Secretary 

                           (Rashidul Bari)

Rashidul Bari is a Bangladeshi born poet, composer, columnist and filmmaker based in the United States. He is an author of 25 books and biographer of Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus. He regularly writes for many newspapers such as Weekly Holiday, Daily New Nation, The Daily Independent, Weekly Blitz, the Daily Bangladesh Today and Global Politician. Currently he is a graduate student of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Rad Book Review:  

http://www.newagebd.com/2008/aug/23/img6.html

                     Read Mr. Bari Book:

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/08/23/news0496.htm

Read Book Review:

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=20577

Or

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=12766

Or

http://www.thedailystar.net/pf_story.php?nid=20818

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About Our Senior VP  

            (Dr. Muhammad A. Quasem)

Dr. Muhammad A. Quasem teaches at Sanford Brown Institute. He is an author, and a scholar of Bengali Language. In 1980, Mr. Quasem graduated from Chittagong College, one of the noted acdemic institutions in South Asia. He earned MSS in Sociology from Chittagong University in 1989. In 1995, he won the Indian Council for Cultural Relations Scholarship to pursue Ph.D at Rabindra Bharoti University, India. 

Read Dr. Quasem Book:

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/ALBETAC/Resources/Heritageguide.html

 Upon earning Ph.D from RBU, Dr. Quasem—migrated to United States—to further his education! He earned MS in Computer and Information Science from Brooklyn College. He was a noted talk-show host of Chittagong Bater from 1992 to 1996. His is the autor of many books—including: Ibn Khaldun: The Founder of Sociology and Philosophy of History, Education and Education System:Bangladesh Prospective, Biggan Bicitra: A collection of Selected Talk on the Radio, and Bangladesh: A Land of Beautiful Tradition and Culture. He lives in New York with wife and children. Email: mquasem00@hotmail.com