Selected Articles (English)

2022

• The Unending Nightmare: The Impacts of Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act 2018 
• Where are They? Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh
• Executions at Will? Extrajudicial Killings by state actors in Bangladesh  

2021

• Geopolitics of the pandemic: The Bangladesh scene
• Anatomy of a Rigged Election in Hybrid Regime: Lessons from Bangladesh (Co-authored)
• Who owns the media in Bangladesh (co-authored with Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman)
• Media Ownership in Bangladesh (Co-authored with Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman)
• Covid-19 and Governance in Bangladesh
• The pathway of Democratic Backsliding in Bangladesh

2020

• Bangladesh In the Shadow of COVID-19 — Carnival of Corruption, Controlling Information, and Coercion
  
• Bangladesh’s Economic ‘Recovery’ in the COVID-19 Era: A Paradox, a Puzzle Or Mirage?”, Asia’s Path Forward, Center for International Private Enterprises (CIPE) October 2, 2020
• Three Decades of Bangladeshi Politics (1990-2019): The Emergence and Collapse of the Political Settlements.

2019

• “Legislature as a Tool of the Hybrid Regime: Bangladesh Experience.”
• “Indo-Bangladesh Relationship: “Saath Saath” (Together) or Too Close for Comfort?”
• “Making Walls, Fencing Borders and Living on the Margin: Understanding the India-Bangladesh Border.”

2018

• “Bangladeshi Militants: What Do We Know?” (Co-author Saimum Parvez).
• “More Than Meets the Eye: The Narratives of Secularism and Islam In Bangladesh.”

2017

• “Democracy and Sharia in Bangladesh: Surveying Support” (Co-author: Syeda Salina Aziz).

2016

• “Challenges to Islamic Education”,
• “Bangladesh: Islamist Militancy, Democracy Deficit and Where to Next?”
• “Who are the Bangladeshi ‘Islamist Militants’”

2015

• “The Troubled Democracy of Bangladesh: ‘Muddling Through’ or ‘a Political Settlement’?”

2014

• “Bangladesh’s Failed Election.”
• “A Crisis of Democracy in Bangladesh.”

2013

• “The new Islamist public sphere in Bangladesh”

2012

• “Madrassah Education in Pre-Colonial and Colonial South Asia.”

2009

• “Interactions of “Transnational” and “Local” Islam in Bangladesh.”

2008

• “Constructing Outraged Communities and State Responses: The Taslima Nasreen Saga in 1994 and 2007”

2007

• “The State-Society Relationship and Political Conflicts in Nepal (1768-2005)” [co-author Subho Basu].

2006

• “Bangladesh in 2005: Standing at a Crossroads.”

2005

• “Beyond the Tilt: US Initiatives to Dissipate Bangladesh Movement in 1971.”
• “Global Jihad, Sectarianism and The Madrassahs in Pakistan.”
• “Traditional institutions as tools of political Islam in Bangladesh: Salish and Fatwa.”
• “Bangladesh in 2004: The Politics of Vengeance and the Erosion of Democracy.”

2003

• “God Willing’: The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh”

2002

• “Nations, Nation-State and Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia.”’

1998

• Two Trends in Analyzing Military Rule in Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Press: Contours and Contents

1997

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