Draft:Taj Hashmi

Taj ul-Islam Hashmi is a Bangladeshi Academic and writer; he taught at various universities in Bangladesh, Australia, Singapore, and Canada. He has also worked for four years at the US Department of Defense's College of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) as a professor of Security studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since 1997, he has been a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He wrote scores of academic and popular essays, articles, and books on various aspects of history, society, religion, politics, culture, and security issues in South Asia, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific, and North America. He is fluent in several Islamic and South Asian languages and is a regular commentator and analyst on current affairs and global conflicts in print and electronic media.

Early Life
Hashmi was born in Assam in 1948.

Education
Hashmi finished 12th grade at Dhaka College and 10th grade at Sirajganj B.L. High School. He completed his M.A. and B.A. (Hons) in Islamic History and Culture from the University of Dhaka and a PhD in Modern South Asian History from the University of Western Australia.

Profession
Hashmi has been an Assistant Professor of Public Management and Criminal Justice at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, since August 2011, he has taught courses on Global and Homeland Security: International Terrorism, Islamic Resurgence, Global Jihad and the Americas, History and Politics of the Middle East and South Asia, Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism and the Law, Domestic Terrorism in the United States, and crisis management issues. He was a retired Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) from 2007 to June 2011. He also taught Islamic and modern South Asian history and cultural anthropology at various universities, including Curtin University (1987–1988), University of Dhaka (1972–1981), the National University of Singapore (1989–1998), and the University of British Columbia (1989–1998).

Works
Hashmi wrote many articles on The Daily Star until 2017.