ABOUT AMINUL HOQUE
Writer best known for his 2015 book, British-Islamic Identity: Third-generation Bangladeshis from East London. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths College in England. From 2016 to 2021, he served as a trustee on the board of Royal Museums Greenwich.
He grew up in a predominantly Bangladeshi neighborhood in Tower Hamlets in London, England. His early memories were of extreme poverty, overcrowding, and experiences of racism. He graduated from the University of Sussex.
In 2008, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honors for his services to youth justice in East London. In 2020, he hosted an episode of British documentary TV series, A Very British History, focusing on Bangladeshi emigration to the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards.
He has three children.
In December 2021, he tweeted a GIF of professional soccer player Frederico Rodrigues Santos on his BrIslam2015 Twitter account.
