Mainus Sultan is a Bangladeshi author and academic. He was born in 1956 in Fulbari, Sylhet.[1] He completed a bachelor's degree from the University of Dhaka.[2] He married Hollyn Green.[3] Their daughter, Kajori Sultan, was born in 1994.[4] He and Green worked in Laos from 1995 through 1999 with Quaker Service Laos, a branch of the American Friends Service Committee.[5] Sultan's research there became the basis for his doctoral thesis, entitled "The process of collaborative capacity building: The journey towards achieving self-management for local INGO staff in the Lao PDR". He submitted it to the University of Massachusetts in May 2003 and received the degree of Doctor of Education.[2]

Sultan was a visiting professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[6] In 2014, he and his wife moved to Sierra Leone,[3] where she became the head of public affairs for the US embassy in Freetown.[7] Sultan received a Bangla Academy Award, the highest literary award of Bangladesh, in 2015 for his travel writing.[8]

References

  1. ↑ মঈনুস সুলতান. Prothoma.com (in Bengali).
  2. 1 2 Sultan, Mainus (2003). The process of collaborative capacity building: The journey towards achieving self-management for local INGO staff in the Lao PDR (Ed. D.). University of Massachusetts Amherst. pp. v–vii.
  3. 1 2 "Mainus Sultan (Ed. D. 2003)". University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  4. ↑ Green, Hollyn (1995). Refugee transition: An educational opportunity to support the advancement of women (Ed. D.). University of Massachusetts Amherst. pp. vi.
  5. ↑ "American Friends Service Committee Annual Report 2000". ReliefWeb. 23 April 2001.
  6. ↑ "Mainus Sultan receives 2013 Book of the Year Award in Bangladesh | Center for International Education". www.umass.edu.
  7. ↑ "Inspection of Embassy Freetown, Sierra Leone" (PDF). Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State. May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Bangla Academy awards for 2014 announced". The Daily Observer.


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