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[mukto-mona] Introducing Dr. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal - Bangladeshi Academian, Scientist & Writer

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Sylhet, Bangladesh
M.Sc (Physics); Dhaka University. PhD in the USA, University of Washington. Worked for 16 years in the
California Institute of Technology and Bell Communications Research. Now Serving as a Professor,
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shahajalal University of Science & Technology (SUST).
Sylhet, Bangladesh. Bangla Academy Literacy Award.
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a Bangladeshi academian, scientist, writer of children's books and science-fiction
and columnist.  He is a professor of Computer Science at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
Iqbal is a science fiction writer in the Bangla language. He was elected as one of the best ten Bangali.

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed was a
police officer and because of his fathers occupation, he traveled various parts of the country as a child.
Zafar Iqbal was inspired by his father for writing at an early life and wrote his first science fiction at the
age of seven. On 5 May 1971 Pakistan Army captured his father and killed him in front of a river. Iqbal
had to dig his father's grave to convince her mother about his death. First publication of Zafar Iqbal's
science fiction came at the famous weekly "Bichitra" as he wrote a short story titled "Kopotronik Bhalobasha"
(Kopotronik Love). One of the readers claimed the story as a plagiarism to make Iqbal annoyed and he wrote
a series of stories under the title as a result. He passed SSC from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and HSC in
1970 from Dhaka College. He joined in Dhaka University at the department of Physics in 1972. In 1976,
Zafar Iqbal went to University of Washington in USA to obtain his Ph. D. There he met his university colleague
Yasmin Haque and a year later they were married. In 1992, Iqbal decided to come back to his country what
according to him he planned to do "the day he left the country".[1] He and his wife have two children, son
Nabil and daughter Yeshim, who translated the book "Amar Bondhu Rashed" (Rashed, my friend) written by
her father. His elder brother Humayun Ahmed is a living legend, and considered one of the most popular writers
of Bengali Language. Younger brother Ahsan Habib is the editor of satirical magazine, 'Unmad'(Mad) and a
cartoonist as well as popular writer. (read less)
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a Bangladeshi academian, scientist, writer of children's books and science-fiction and
columnist. He is a professor of Computer Science at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Iqbal is a
science fiction writer in the Bangla language. He was elected as one of the best ten Bangali.


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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) (born December 23, 1952) is a Bangladeshi academian, scientist, writer of children's ...
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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) (born December 23,1952) is a Bangladeshi academian, scientist, writer of children's books and science-fiction and columnist. He is a professor of Computer Science at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

  • Bangla science fiction

    All told, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal has written the greatest number of science fiction works in Bangla sci-fi. Zafar Iqbal 1st used the word 'copotron' in his 1st science fiction 'Copotronic Shukh Dukho'.

  • Mohammad Kaykobad

    Along with Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Kaykobad started the national mathematics olympiad.

  • Humayun Ahmed

    The rise of Bengali science fiction can almost solely be attributed to Humayun Ahmed and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, his younger brother.

  • List of Bengali language authors (alphabetical)

    Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (b.1952)

  • List of Bangladeshis

    Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Scientist and science writer

  • Netrokona District

    Kendua is very popular for Bangladesh Ex-president Shahabuddin Ahmed, Great Scientist Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is from Kutubpur Kendua, Prof. Humayun Ahmed (Bangla:হুমায়ুন আহমেদ) is one of the most popular novelists and dramatists in Bangladesh and his hometown in Kutubpur, Kendua and popular social workers Late(1987) Abdus Sattar Khan hometown in -ALIPUR Kendua who established ALIPUR PRIMARY SCHOOL Kendua and his lots of social activities & developmental tasks involved in the social sector of Kendua loves every one.

  • Bengali literature

    Shawkat Osman, Shamsur Rahman, Sufia Kamal, Al Mahmud, Abubakar Siddique, Hasan Azizul Huq, Selina Hossain, Shawkat Ali, Akhtaruzzaman Ilias, Nirmalendu Goon, Mahadev Saha, Abul Hasan, Humayun Azad, Humayun Ahmed, Imdadul Haque Milon, Anisul Hoque and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal to name a few.

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    Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Scientist, Famous writer, working as a professor of Computer Science at the SUST)

  • List of science fiction authors

    Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, (born 1952)

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