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Native name
  
এমদাদ রহমান

Ethnicity
  
Bengali

Name
  
Emdad Rahman

Nationality
  
British

Religion
  
Islam

Role
  
Journalist

Emdad Rahman wwwbarkinganddagenhampostcoukpolopolyfs1144
Born
  
May 1976 (age 39)
Tower Hamlets, London, England

Residence
  
Aldersey Gardens, Barking, Barking and Dagenham, London, England

Occupation
  
Journalist, blogger, poet

Books
  
The Greatest Game on, Kings of Africa: Lyrical R, Seeking Henri Delaunay

I am England poem by Emdad Rahman.mp4


Emdad Rahman (Bengali: এমদাদ রহমান; born May 1976) is an English freelance journalist, blogger and football poet.

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Early life

Rahman was born in London, England. His parents are from Bangladesh and his father is Lutfur Rahman.

At the age of 17, after completing his GCSEs, Rahman memorised the whole Qur'an.

Writing career

Rahman is a freelance writer and journalist. He is a commentator for The Guardian online opinion site and edits the blog All in a Day's Work. He is a writer, researcher and London correspondent for Mathaba News and English editor of English weekly newspaper EuroBangla, news editor at Bangla Mirror, editorial assistant at the London Muslim and chief editor at CyberSylhet. He has a voluntary unpaid role as the executive editor at London Bangla, a bilingual free weekly newspaper in Tower Hamlets.

Rahman is also a published football poet, In August 2007, his book The Greatest Game on Earth - A Collection of Footballing Verse was published. In August 2009, his second book Seeking Henri Delaunay: A Poetic Chronicle of the UEFA European Football Championship 2008 was published. In March 2010, his third book Kings of Africa: Lyrical Recitals from the African Cup Of Nations - Angola 2010 was published.

Rahman has published over 500 football poems, his work focuses mainly on unique community activism and positive stories featuring amongst other things homelessness, sports, the arts and human inspiration.

In March 2015, Rahman was interviewed by Nadia Ali on BBC Asian Network about Bangladesh independence.

Other work

Rahman is an advisor for the British Transport Police. He is Chair of Trustees at Amani Foundation, a charity which works with disadvantaged families, and with which he is involved with in Tower Hamlets. He is involved in many initiatives, working with children and have voluntarily raised hundreds of pounds for schools doing a charity walk of all the London bridges. He is a Dementia Friends Champion and volunteers to raise awareness through the delivery of interactive information sessions.

He also works as a Local Government Officer a schools education and attendance advisor and a school governor at his old primary school. He is involved with caring for homeless people and coaching sport in Tower Hamlets and Barking and Dagenham. He does volunteer work for the Whitechapel Mission and Tower Hamlets food bank. He is head coach of Stepney under 12 football team. He teaches creative writing, delivers football poetry workshops, presentations and talks during the weekends with young people in Tower Hamlets teaching poetry and blogging. He spends six hours every weekend teaching children at a cultural school in East London.

He has achieved a Level 9 football referees status and gained a FA Level 1 coaching certificate. He is also an under 12 head football coach for Stepney Football Club. He is chairman of Essex based Scintilla Cricket Club - a grassroots cricket club run by volunteers.

Awards and recognition

In 2004, Rahman received the civic award. In 2005, he received the volunteer of the year award for "inspiration" in the field of voluntary work. In 2006, he was one of five winner of the Community Champion Award by the UK Islamic Mission. In 2007, he won the Canary wharf Group award for volunteering in sports. In 2009, he was awarded contribution to the community for London and South at the Channel S Awards. In the same year, he was awarded a second civic award and a community safety award for his journalism. In 2011, he was named Londoner of the day.

In 2012, he was one of the winners of the Special Recognition Award at the Bangladesh Football Association annual Awards Ceremony. In 2013, he was awarded voluntary contribution to sport at the Channel S awards. In the same year, he won his second Canary wharf Group award for volunteering in sports. He has also made the shortlist for The Muslim News awards for excellence for times.

In 2013, Rahman was appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours. In May 2015, he was granted Freedom of the City of London at a ceremony in Guildhall, London, in recognition of his outstanding voluntary work.

Personal life

Rahman lived Tower Hamlets, London, England since the age of one, before moving out 30 years later. He is still voluntarily and actively involved with community initiatives. Rahman now lives and works in Aldersey Gardens, Barking, London with his wife and three children.

Rahman is a running enthusiast, and has completed four 10 mile races, including competing in three consecutive London Marathons, climbing the three UK peaks, raising funds for charity.

On 29 August 2012, he carried the Paralympic Torch in Stratford, London for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. On 21 July 2014, he ran 300 metres in the Queen's Baton Relay near the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, after being nominated for his community work.

References

Emdad Rahman Wikipedia