# Shamim Chowdhury
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{{Short description|English television and print journalist}}
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| alma_mater = [Queen Mary University](/source/Queen_Mary%2C_University_of_London)
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[City University London](/source/City_University_London)
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| relatives = [Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani](/source/M._A._G._Osmani) (great uncle)
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'''Shamim Ara Chowdhury''' ({{langx|bn|শামীম আরা চৌধুরী}}) is an English television and print journalist.
==Early life and education==
Chowdhury was born into a [Bengali Muslim](/source/Bengali_Muslim) [Chowdhury](/source/Chowdhury) family in [England](/source/England), [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). Her parents migrated from [Sylhet](/source/Sylhet_District),[{{cite book |last1=Karim|first1=Mohammed Abdul|last2=Karim|first2=Shahadoth|title=British Bangladeshi Who's Who|url=http://www.bbwhoswho.co.uk/images/whos-who-2013.pdf|date=October 2013|publisher=British Bangla Media Group|page=75|access-date=1 September 2014}}] [East Pakistan](/source/East_Pakistan) (now [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh)) to the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.[{{cite news |last=Chowdhury|first=Shamim|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shamim-chowdhury/reconnecting-with-the-pas_b_3706682.html|title=Reconnecting With the Past – A British-Bangladeshi Returns to the Land of her Ancestors Shamim Chowdhury|work=[HuffPost](/source/HuffPost)|date=5 August 2013|access-date=1 December 2013}}] [Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani](/source/M._A._G._Osmani), the commander-in-chief of the [Bengali liberation forces](/source/Mukti_Bahini), is her great-uncle and grew up in the same household as her paternal grandfather, Azadur Rahman Chowdhury, who himself was the postmaster general of the [Sylhet district](/source/Sylhet_Division).[{{cite book |last1=Karim|first1=Mohammed Abdul|last2=Karim|first2=Shahadoth|title=British Bangladeshi Who's Who|url=http://www.bbwhoswho.co.uk/images/old_Publication.pdf|date=November 2014|publisher=British Bangla Media Group|page=11|access-date=1 December 2014}}]
Chowdhury has a [BSc](/source/Bachelor_of_Science) from [Queen Mary University](/source/Queen_Mary%2C_University_of_London), a [MSc](/source/Master_of_Science) from [Birkbeck College](/source/Birkbeck%2C_University_of_London), and a [post-graduate diploma](/source/Postgraduate_diploma) in newspaper journalism from [City University London](/source/City_University_London).[{{cite book |last1=Karim|first1=Mohammed Abdul|last2=Karim|first2=Shahadoth|title=British Bangladeshi Who's Who|url=http://www.bbwhoswho.co.uk/whoswho_09.pdf|date=October 2009|publisher=British Bangla Media Group|page=55|access-date=18 September 2011}}][{{cite book|last1=Karim|first1=Mohammed Abdul|last2=Karim|first2=Shahadoth|title=British Bangladeshi Who's Who|url=http://www.bbwhoswho.co.uk/images/who%27%20who%20website%202010.pdf|date=October 2010|publisher=British Bangla Media Group|page=49|access-date=18 September 2011|archive-date=29 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929082121/http://www.bbwhoswho.co.uk/images/who%27%20who%20website%202010.pdf|url-status=dead}}]
==Career==
Chowdhury started out in print journalism[{{cite web|url=http://www.asianmediaawards.com/judges3.html|title=Judges – Asian Media Awards|publisher=asianmediaawards|date=30 September 2013|access-date=1 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011733/http://www.asianmediaawards.com/judges3.html|archive-date=3 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}] She was involved in a wide range of stories for the channel, including the 2013 Ukraine crisis, the collapse of the Rana Plaza building complex in Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi elections. She was regarded as the channel's Bangladesh expert.[{{Citation |title=TRT World's Asia Reporter on witnessing scale of the Rohingya refugee crisis |date=30 September 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOurQduh7o |publisher=TRT World |access-date=4 October 2017}}] During this time she has reported from inside Syria, Iraq, South Korea, Jerusalem, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and many European countries. She also produced and reported an exclusive series of reports on Bangladesh's burgeoning economy, including a half-hour documentary of the subject.
Her interviews include former [Prime Minister of Turkey](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Turkey) [Binali Yıldırım](/source/Binali_Y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1r%C4%B1m); [Gowher Rizvi](/source/Gowher_Rizvi), the International Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh; and [Kamal Hossain](/source/Kamal_Hossain), a founding leader of Bangladesh.
She has also written extensively for ''[The Huffington Post](/source/The_Huffington_Post)'' on a wide range of socio-political issues.[{{cite news|last=Hartley|first=Sarah|url=http://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2013/10/asian-media-awards-shortlist-unveiled-ahead-of-manchester-ceremony/|title=Asian Media Awards shortlist unveiled ahead of Manchester ceremony|publisher=Prolific North|date=2 October 2013|access-date=1 December 2013|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014858/http://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/2013/10/asian-media-awards-shortlist-unveiled-ahead-of-manchester-ceremony/|url-status=dead}}]
==Personal life==
Chowdhury is a [Muslim](/source/Muslim)[{{cite news |last=Chowdhury|first=Shamim|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shamim-chowdhury/why-as-a-muslim-i-celebrate-christmas_b_2344084.html|title=Why as a Muslim I Celebrate Christmas|work=[HuffPost](/source/HuffPost)|date=24 December 2012|access-date=1 December 2013}}] and lives in [West London](/source/West_(London_sub_region)).