Bobby Hajjaj - Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bobby Hajjaj is a political leader, scholar, teacher, and famous author. Nonetheless, the identities in which he takes most pride are being a Bangladeshi, and a father. Hajjaj was born in Dhaka, in 1974, to Dr. Moosa Bin Shamsher and Mrs. Kaniz Fatema Chowdhury. His father was a decorated student leader in the sixties and a pioneering business magnate post-Bangladesh’s war of independence and is celebrated as the father of the Manpower Export industry.

His grandfather, Shamsher Ali, was a government official in Faridpur during British Rule, and his forefathers were Islamic preachers by vocation. His mother is a scion of the famed Dhulai Zamindar family of Pabna, one of the preeminent Zamindari estates during the British Raj, and her father Abu Naser Chowdhury was the last rightful  

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legatee to the estate.

Hajjaj grew up in Dhaka’s suburban idyll during the 70s and the 80s, a time when democracy was in a constant state of abeyance. His family had close relations with many of the influential political players at the time, across all party lines. The experiences of those times etched deep emotions regarding politics in young Hajjaj’s mind.