New York – A community-based seminar on ‘Necessity of Bhasani in Our Movements for Justice and Liberation’ being organised and hosted by the Maolana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (MAKKB) Foundation in New York will be held at Kabab King, 73 01 37rd Jackson Heights, NY 11372 from 6-9pm, says a press release issued from New York.This exciting community based seminar will feature a lecture by Dr. Layli Uddin, a researcher at the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London whose doctoral thesis is based on Bhasani’s life. Her thesis is titled: In The Land of Eternal Eid: Maulana Bhashani and the Political Mobilisation of Peasants and Lower-Class Urban Workers in East Pakistan, c. 1930s-1971 which has been awarded an honorable mention by University of Berkeley’s S.S. Pirzada Prize for the best dissertation on Pakistan. Dr. Uddin earned an MPhil from the University of Oxford in 2011 and a PhD from the University of London in 2015. She is currently the Bengali curator at the British Library for Two Centuries of Indian Print Project.
In addition to her scholarly work, Ms. Uddin has been a community activist in Tower Hamlets, where the British-Bangladeshi community is based, and self-identifies as working class from a British-Bangladeshi background.
The program will be moderated by community and legal activist Ms. Chaumtoli Huq and President of the Bhashani Foundation Sayed Sultan We welcome anyone who is committed to social justice and liberation of oppressed communities to join this community based seminar. In particular, we invite individuals who are using faith or ethical-spiritual based frameworks, especially Islam, in their organizing to hear how Bhasani organized peasant, workers within the Islamic and left traditions, while capturing the hearts and minds of mass population. In a climate of acute Islamophobia, conservative reactionary politics, neoliberalism, what insights do Bhasani’s life, philosophy and organizing provide to activists both here in US and around the globe.
This program is being organised and generously hosted by the Maolana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (MAKKB) Foundation in New York.
Where: Kabab King
73 01 37rd Jackson Heights, NY 11372.
718-457- 5857
Date: Sunday, February 26th
Time: 6:00 pm -9:00 pm.
Followed by DINNER.
To RSVP, please contact: Sayed Sultan at 917-2916289 stsultan1952@yahoo.com or Kazi Fouzia at fouziak1@gmail.com 347-965-3194
