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Samira

Samira Sadeque

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based Bangladeshi journalist and poet writing about migration, the refugee crisis, gender, and mental health. She completed her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School in 2017. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, Al Jazeera, Quartz, The Lily, AJ+, The Wire.in, Scroll.in, and the Dhaka Tribune among other publications. Her work was nominated for a 2018 South Asian Journalists Association award. She is a 2018 Poynter Fellow and a 2018 Maynard Fellow.



Latest Stories

Memorial for a Muslim family killed by a driver in Ontario, Canada (Photo by Seyit Aydogan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Why South Asians Feel Abandoned in the Anti-Asian Hate Conversation

The recent spike in hate crimes has brought up familiar feelings for South Asians. But not all feel like they’re part of the conversation.

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A vigil for the victims of the Indianapolis shooting (Tim Hertzner)

Beyond Indianapolis: The Enduring Trauma of Anti-Sikh Violence in America

“I have been spat at and asked to go back, just because of our clothing, just because of our skin color, just because of our articles of faith.”

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Photos by Samira Sadeque, illustration by Imaan Sheikh

A Year into Lockdown, South Asian New Yorkers Share their Stories

Six South Asians — the Asian subgroup with the highest number of positive cases and hospitalizations — lay bare their pandemic experiences.

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Baul Dada in Jackson Heights (Samira Sadeque)

Baul Dada Sings of the American Dream

The singing street food vendor brought jhalmuri to New York City, then got caught in immigration purgatory.

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Ishtiaq Ali (known as Tinku) and Scott Anderson (Ishtiaq Ali)

Tinku’s Protest Through Love

A Bengali newspaper outed him and his gay marriage to his community back home in 1992. Unfazed, he used it as a teaching moment for others.

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Taxi Drivers Navigate a City Stacked Against Them

Nearly 50% of New York City yellow cab drivers are from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India — they must face ride-sharing’s rise and increasing driver suicides, together.

Samira Sadeque

The Catch-22 of Gun Violence in America

The Oak Creek shooting at a Wisconsin gurudwara, the man who shot and killed an Indian man in Kansas, and the Sandy Hook shooting all affected South Asian Americans. Yet, South Asian Americans also fear how their identity implicates them, even when they aren’t guilty.

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