Sheikh Sabiha Alam is a Bangladeshi investigative journalist. Her areas of interest are human rights, crime, terrorism, and politics. She also has reported extensively on health and child rights issues. She previously worked for Prothom Alo, the BBC, bdnews24, the first online daily in Bangladesh, and The Daily Star. Alam’s stories have won UNICEF’s Meena Media Award four times and a Press Trust of India award. She was a 2023 Nieman fellow.
Day at our house in the northeastern part of Bangladesh would break with a rally of sounds. First, it was Azan, the call to prayer from the mosque. Then came my dad’s recitation from the Holy Quran, tinkling sounds from … Read more
