A little more than two years ago, the novelist and critic Rumaan Alam landed a job as the editor of special projects at The New York Times Book Review. It was a dream job — of course it was — and he ...

Khydeeja Alam, who has worked for years at various Sacramento-based state and advocacy organizations, has been appointed as the executive director of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific ...

After Shahidul Alam went on TV last year and criticized the government of his native Bangladesh, the renowned photographer was taken from his home and thrown in jail for 107 days. If it was meant to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “People hug me in the street. They say: ‘You were so brave!’ I don’t think so.” Shahidul Alam takes a sip of ...