Firdous Azim

Firdous Azim is Professor of English at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is co-editor of Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women and has published widely on literary, cultural and women’s issues, both inside and outside the country, including The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993). She is an active member of Naripokkho, a woman’s activist group in Bangladesh, and is currently working on a women activists’ memoir project.