rashidul Bari

Rashidul Bari: Bio

Rashidul Bari was born in Bangladesh in 1979 and has been studying in the United States since 2000. He considers himself one-half servant of education and one-half writer. He has earned five bachelor’s degrees, BA in political science, BA in economics, BA in mathematics, BA in computer science and BA in physics respectively, from three different CUNY institutions: York College, City College of New York and Lehman […]

September 13

Talking Point

Four-year old Einstein

|By Rashidul Bari | Meet Soborno Isaac Bari, known as “4-Year-Old Einstein,” who has a very strange dream: He wants to get into Harvard at the age of 10, via the SAT. Of course, the SAT can’t determine whether he’s truly ready for college-level courses, but not many 4-year-olds can solve chemistry problems. His knowledge of the periodic table has impressed several academic institutions, including City University of New […]

May 06

Talking Point

Grameen Bank and John Nash

|By Rashidul Bari|One may expect the title “Grameen and Muhammad Yunus” to reflect Yunus’ founding of the Grameen Bank (which won the Nobel Prize in 2006) in 1983 to provide miniature loans to the poor—especially women who were trapped in an endless cycle of poverty. Why then does the title involve John Nash, a math genius who won the Nobel Prize in 1994, instead of Yunus? Does […]

June 05

Columns, Talking Point

Malala: A servant of education

|By Rashidul Bari| When I was writing Grameen Social Business Model, a book detailing the search for a weapon to use against poverty and terrorism, Malala Yousafzai played a key, but kind of secondary, role, a supporting character. But I kind of found, when I was writing another article, “Why do they Hate Obama?” that the force of Malala kept trying to take over, kept trying to […]

October 18

Columns, Talking Point

Solution to Palestine-Israel conflict

|By Rashidul Bari| Palestine and Israel, once known as cradle of civilization, have become the hub of cemeteries in modern times. Their conflict has shed untold blood and produced graves as far as the eye can see. The countless tombstones are silent, but the sound of their outcry has carried from Middle-East to here at New York University’s Bobst Library—where I’m writing this article—and from which I’m […]

August 14