• Source: Tasmima Hossain

Tasmima Hossain (Bengali: তাসমিমা হোসেন; born 1951) is a Jatiya Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Pirojpur-2 constituency. She is the editor of The Daily Ittefaq and Anannya.




Early life


Hossain was born in 1951 in Dhaka, East Bengal, Pakistan. She is originally from Gendaria.




Career


Hossain was elected to parliament in 1996 from Pirojpur-2 as a Jatiya Party candidate. In 1988, she was made the editor of Anannya magazine. She was a founding member of Breaking the Silence, a non profit, and its chairperson for a number of years. In 2014, she became the deputy editor of The Daily Ittefaq. On 4 July 2018, she was made the editor of The Daily Ittefaq.




Personal life


Hossain is married to Anwar Hossain Manju, the publisher of The Daily Ittefaq. Hossain's youngest daughter, Anushay Hossain, is a journalist and former political analyst based in the United States, who in her nonfiction book The Pain Gap, wrote about the influence of her mother during her childhood.




References

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• Anwar Hossain Manju
• Tasmima Hossain
• Anwar Hossain Manju
• List of Bangladeshi people
• The Pain Gap
• The Daily Ittefaq
• List of members of the 7th Jatiya Sangsad
• Pirojpur-2
• List of newspapers in Bangladesh
• Anannya
• Bengali-language newspapers