Mohammad A. Arafat
মোহাম্মদ এ. আরাফাত
Member of Parliament
Assumed office
17 July 2023
Preceded byAkbar Hossain Pathan Farooque
ConstituencyDhaka-17
Personal details
Born (1977-12-01) December 1, 1977
Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
Spouse
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(m. 2008; div. 2015)​
Alma materOklahoma State University,
Prairie View A&M University[1]
Occupation
  • Professor
  • Entrepreneur
  • Politician

Mohammad A. Arafat is a Bangladeshi Academic, Political Advocate of the Bangladesh Awami League and Member of Bangladesh Parliament.[2] He is a Professor of Strategic Management and Policy at the Canadian University of Bangladesh and Chairman of Suchinta Foundation.[3][4] He is a writer on topics related to Bangladesh’s Economic Developments and Challenges, Transit and Connectivity, Appropriate Policies for Power Sector, War Crime Trial, Political Development and Democracy in Bangladesh, etc. He is an Executive Member of the Central Executive Committee of Bangladesh Bangladesh Awami League.[5]

Career

The Rajshahi-born Arafat is a syndicate member and Chief Advisor to the board of trustees of the Canadian University of Bangladesh.[6][7][8] He is the founder of Suchinta Foundation.[9] He endorsed Annisul Huq for the North Dhaka Mayor election.[10]

Arafat has called for stronger ties with India and allowing transshipment of goods.[11] He wrote positively about Harsh Vardhan Shringla visit to Bangladesh and described it as "promising".[12]

Arafat called Reza Kibria, son of former Finance Minister Shah AMS Kibria, a traitor for complaining about the human rights situation in Bangladesh to the United States.[13] He criticized the United States for placing sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion and described Gano Adhikar Parishad as a none threat to the Awami League government.[13]

The United States sanctioned Rapid Action Battalion under the Magnitsky Act for extrajudicial killing with specific reference to the killing of Ekramul Haque.[14][15]

In September 2022, the Government of Bangladesh dismantled the existing trustee board of Manarat International University alleging it had links with Islamist militants and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.[16] Mayor of North Dhaka and Awami League politician, Atiqul Islam, was appointed chairman and Arafat was appointed a member of the newly created Trustee board.[17]

Arafat was made a member of the Central Working Committee of the Awami League in December 2022.[18]

Personal life

Arafat married Shomi Kaiser, actress and daughter of Shahidullah Kaiser and Panna Kaiser, on 24 July 2008.[19][20] They divorced in 2015.[21][22]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile - Mohammad A. Arafat". tritiyomatra.com. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Arafat, Tarana new faces in Awami League central committee". www.dhakatribune.com. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Arafat, Mohammad A. (5 August 2020). "Bangladesh-India ties are not a zero-sum game". The Daily Star. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "'We see no challenges as the stars are aligned in favour of the Awami League'". www.dhakatribune.com. 2 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "A call for a national consensus". Dhaka Tribune. 2015-11-12. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Chairperson". Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Introducing Canadian University of Bangladesh". Canadian University of Bangladesh. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Masum, Obaidur. "Canadian University gets Rajuk's Purbachal plot 'in breach of rules'". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  9. ↑ miqbal (12 September 2022). "The international community must see the Bangladesh of 2022". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  10. ↑ "The better candidate". Dhaka Tribune. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  11. ↑ Sharma, Sumit (17 August 2020). "India bids to head off China in Bangladesh". Asia Times. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  12. ↑ "OP-ED: With a little help from our friends". Dhaka Tribune. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  13. 1 2 "Complainant to foreigners, is a traitor Reza Kibria is inexperienced in politics". Barta24. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  14. ↑ Samad, Harris (16 December 2021). "US sanctions on Bangladesh's RAB: What happened? What's next?". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  15. ↑ ""Where No Sun Can Enter"". Human Rights Watch. 16 August 2021.
  16. ↑ Rahaman, Arafat (9 September 2022). "Manarat University: Govt reconstitutes trustee board over 'militancy links'". The Daily Star. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  17. ↑ Rahaman, Arafat (8 September 2022). "Atiqul Islam made chairman of Manarat Int'l University Board of Trustees". The Daily Star. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  18. ↑ "AL announces full-fledged central committee". Risingbd.com. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  19. ↑ জন্মদিন : শমী কায়সার :: দৈনিক ইত্তেফাক [Birthday: Shami Kaiser]. The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali). 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  20. ↑ "Shomi and Panna Kaiser on "Eki Brintey" tonight". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). 19 November 2009.
  21. ↑ Arts & Entertainment Desk (10 October 2020). "A new chapter begins for Shomi Kaiser". The Daily Star. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  22. ↑ "Shomi Kaiser ties the knot with Reza Ameen". New Age | The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
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