Lailufar Yasmin is a doctoral student at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and teaches in International Relations at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her research interest includes secularism, IR theory and Islam.
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Published in: HomeCrisis of modernity and secularism: the cases of Egypt, Turkey and BangladeshWhenever democratic space has opened up, people have been eager to choose those who not only provide a better...
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Published in: openSecurityThe well of the past: the power of religion in Bangladesh
While secularism can be seen as a point of departure for Bangladeshi nationalism from the 1950s onward, the...
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Published in: openSecurityReligion and after: Bangladeshi identity since 1971
Secularism was one of the cornerstones of Bengali nationalism, but its spirit was enforced only by pen and paper....