Anu Muhammad

Career

Anu Muhammad is a professor at Jahangirnagar University where he has been teaching economics since 1982 and taught anthropology from 1991 to 2005. He was a visiting professor at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba in 2001 and worked at Columbia University as a visiting scholar in 1993. His research and written work focus on such areas as current economic and political problems in Bangladesh, political economy, globalisation, social transformation, gender issues, non-governmental organisations, environment, and energy. He is the member-secretary of the citizen's movement platform called National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas-Mineral Resources-Power and Ports.

Political views

Besides being an academic, Anu Muhammad is a political activist against repression, discrimination, and other forms of oppression, including capitalism, imperialism, racism, and patriarchy. His involvement in a variety of resistance movements in Bangladesh and his appearance on TV talk shows with his anti-establishment position led to a death threat he received in February 2008. He was injured by the police in September 2009 during a demonstration protesting exploration deals granted by the government to two international oil companies. This event led to a protest by the Bangladesh Economic Association and to an open letter condemning the event, signed as it was by intellectuals, academics, and activists from around the world, including, among many others, Bertell Ollman, E. San Juan, Jr., Vijay Prashad, Gopal Balakrishnan, Nurul Kabir, and by Azfar Hussain, who convened this international signature campaign. After regular verbal attacks by the government ministers, Muhammad also got arrested by the police during a shutdown protesting the government's anti-people agreement with a multinational company on 3 July 2011.

Works

Anu Muhammad has written more than 30 books, most of them in Bangla and some in English. He is the editor of the quarterly journal Sarbajonakotha.

His books include: