Aasha Mehreen Amin
Aasha Mehreen Amin (born 1966 in Dhaka) is a Bangladeshi journalist and writer. She is the joint editor of The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s leading English daily.
She earned a Bachelor of Science from Boston College in 1991. In 1993 she received a journalism fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on environmental and investigative reporting.
She began as a feature writer for The Daily Star in June 1991. She was the editor of The Daily Star’s weekly Star from 1996 to 2015. She writes a satirical column called Postscript and a current events column No Strings Attached. She also served as deputy editor of the Editorial and Op-ed section and is now Joint Editor.
Her family is notable. Her father, Anwarul Amin Makhon, is the son of Nurul Amin, a former prime minister of Pakistan, and he helped Bangladesh Bank open its first branch abroad. Her mother, Razia Khan Amin, is an Ekushey Padak–winning writer and a professor at the University of Dhaka. Her paternal grandfather Nurul Amin was a Pakistani politician and briefly prime minister in December 1971, and her maternal grandfather Tamizuddin Khan was the speaker of Pakistan’s parliament.
Aasha Mehreen Amin is married and has one child.
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