People from Sylhet - Syed Ahmed, Gurusaday Dutt, Ajmal Masroor, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Rushanara a (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Abdul Latif (restaurateur), Ajmal Masroor, Alok Kapali, Anamul Haque, Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, C. M. Shafi Sami, Dewan Farid Gazi, Dilwar Khan, Enamul Haque Jr, Gurusaday Dutt, Hason Raja, Henry Plowden, Humayun Rashid Choudhury, Iqbal Ahmed, Kaiser Hamid, Kamala Bhattacharya, Khatun Sapnara, Leela Roy, Lutfur Rahman, Muhammad Abdullah Salique, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muquim Ahmed, Rajin Saleh, Rani Hamid, Rezia Wahid, Ruhul Amin (film director), Rushanara Ali, Salman Shah (actor), Satyabrata Mookherjee, Shamim Azad, Sudhansu Datta Majumdar, Syed Ahmed, Syed Manzoorul Islam, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Tapash Baisya. Excerpt: Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Sylheti, Bengali: ) (born December 23, 1952) is a Bangladeshi scientist, writer of science fiction, children's books, and also a well-known columnist. He is currently a professor of CSE and EEE department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. Because of his father's occupation, he traveled to various parts of the country as a child. Zafar Iqbal was inspired by his father for writing at an early life. He wrote his first science fiction work at the age of seven. On 5 May 1971, the Pakistan Army captured his father and killed him in front of a river. Iqbal had to dig his father's grave to convince his mother of her husband's death. He passed SSC exam from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and HSC exam from Dhaka College in 1970. He earned his BSc in physics from Dhaka University in 1976. Then Iqbal went to University of Washington to obtain his PhD. He earned the degree in 1982. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1983 to 1988. He then joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), a separate corporation from the Bell Labs, which is now known as Telcordia Technologies, as a Research Scientist. He left the institute in 1994 and joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal with his wife, Yasmeen HaqueIqbal married Yasmeen Haque in 1978. She is currently serving as the head of the Department of Physics at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. They have two children - son Nabil and daughter Yeshim. Yeshim translated the book Amar Bondhu Rashed (Rashed, My Friend) written by her father. Iqbal's elder brother, Humayun Ahmed, was a writer and film-maker. Humayun Ahmed passed away after a nine-month struggle against colorectal cancer on the 19th of July, 2012. His younge