Fareena Alam
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Fareena Alam (born 1978 in London) is Editor of Q News, a leading British Muslim Magazine.
In 2005, she was named Media Professional of the Year by Islamic Relief. In 2006, she was named Media Professional of the Year at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.
Fareena is of Bangladeshi Chittagonian parentage and she grew up in Singapore. During this time she was elected as the president of the United Nations Students' Association, National University of Singapore, for which she organised a six month awareness campaign called 'The Children of Bangladesh.' The campaign highlighted the plight of the street children and she then took the campaign a stage further by leading a student delegation of twenty to carry out relief work in Bangladesh for three weeks in 1998.
Since moving back to the UK, Fareena has become an established journalist. She is the only female managing editor of a major Muslim publication, Q News, Britain's leading Muslim magazine that she is leading through a major revamp and relaunch. She is a freelance contributor to British and international newspapers.
In 2003 Fareena caused controversy amongst the predominantly Sylheti Bangladeshi population of Tower Hamlets when she wrote an article in The Guardian praising Monica Ali's book, Brick Lane. Many Sylhetis objected to the negative portrayal of Sylhetis in the novel.
[edit] External links
- Official Website (under construction)
- Q News magazine
- commentisfree > Fareena Alam's blog
- NS Interview - Fareena Alam New Statesman
[edit] Alam's work
- Why I reject the anarchists who claim to speak for IslamThe Observer
- A humane Muslim future Open Democracy
- Five Principles for Islam's Future
my names fareena.a too!!!! (thats the person who writ this) he he
