Dr. Mahmudur Rahman is a prominent figure in Bangladeshi political life with notable achievements in various fields. He is one of the owners and acting editor of the Bengali daily newspaper Amar Desh. Beyond journalism, Rahman has a background in engineering and business that allowed him in the early 2000s to serve as the executive chairman of the National Investment Board and later became the national energy adviser for Bangladesh. Since 2008, he has been a vocal critic of the government through his newspaper, leading to numerous defamation and sedition cases against him that were characterized by international human rights groups as judicial harassment. Rahman is the author of several books in Bangla and English, the latest of which is “The Political History of Muslim Bengal: An Unfinished Battle of Faith.”