Maneeza Hossain is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and author of Broken Pendulum: Bangladesh's Swing to Radicalism (Hudson Institute Press, 2007). Her work at Hudson focuses on policy considerations of the impact of the relationship of Islam and democracy in Bangladesh. Prior to joining Hudson, Ms. Hossain was a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), where she was also the Manager of Democracy Programs. At FDD she edited the Iraq Democracy Papers, a collection of readers of annotated articles and commentaries widely distributed in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Ms. Hossain participates regularly in events and conferences focused on South Asia. She has a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Articles by Maneeza Hossain:

Dhaka on the Path to Islamabad?
14 January 2007

"A year has passed since the military assumed power in Bangladesh, and the silence of much of the world amounts to complicity in the destruction of the country's democratic potential. The army is becoming politicized and democracy is being delegitimized. If these trends continue, a Pakistan-like outcome is not unlikely: The military will have the final say in society, the political class will be decapitated, and grassroots Islamism will strengthen as an outlet and an alternative."