1. Jalal Alamgir was a Bangladeshi-American academic and an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and the son of Awami League Member of Parliament Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir.
10 Facts About Jalal Alamgir
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Jalal Alamgir specialised in the inter-relationships between globalisation and representational politics.
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Jalal Alamgir died in a drowning accident in Thailand on 3 December 2011.
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Jalal Alamgir passed SSC from St Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka.
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Jalal Alamgir was a tenured faculty at University of Massachusetts-Boston, holding the position of associate professor of political science.
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Jalal Alamgir was a fellow at the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University.
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At the time of his death, Jalal Alamgir was working on several research projects: political violence and justice in Bangladesh and Pakistan, foreign policy of Bangladesh, the representation of values in Indian foreign policy, and the relationship between authoritarianism and globalization in Myanmar.
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Jalal Alamgir wrote for different newspapers and magazines, including Foreign Policy, Current History, The Nation, China Daily, openDemocracy, GlobalPost, The Daily Star Forum, Catamaran: Journal of South Asian American Writing, and the Huffington Post.
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Jalal Alamgir was a member of Drishtipat, a global network of Bangladeshi activists, and participated in the Drishtipat Writers' Collective.
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Jalal Alamgir was in Thailand with his wife Fazeela Morshed for a holiday in December 2011.