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In the fall of 2010, Aniqa Islam expects to join a master\u2019s program focusing on the economic development of Third World nations, with an emphasis on raising living standards in these countries. But she\u2019s already demonstrated her capacity for work on the graduate level\u2014and beyond. Last April, when most of her classmates were finishing papers for their courses, she organized an unprecedented two-day gathering of students, academics, journalists, and policy makers\u2013\u2013including Dr. M. Ishaq Nadiri, former senior economic advisor to Afghan President Karzai, and Dr. Ahmad Dawer Nadi, a 1988 QC graduate and president of the Afghan Peace Association\u2013\u2013on the political and economic development of Afghanistan. Aniqa points out that the Queens campus was an ideal location for the conference. Flushing, the college\u2019s home neighborhood, boasts the largest Afghan community in New York.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The daughter of a retired Bangladeshi diplomat, Aniqa always paid attention to world affairs. At Queens College, she was able to pursue those interests further. She singles out two especially memorable instructors (and the courses she took with them): Mark Rosenblum (History), who taught \u201cThe Middle East and America: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of the Minds,\u201d and Irving Leonard Markovitz (Political Science), who taught \u201cPolitics of Development.\u201d But whatever she was studying, the diversity of her professors and fellow undergraduates made \u201cthe learning experience just more intense,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n
Aniqa\u2019s learning experiences weren\u2019t restricted to the classroom. She was student coordinator of the Democracy Matters seminar and founded a club, Students for a Democratic Society (not to be confused with the radical group form the 1960s). She was also active in both the Queens chapter of the Model UN and the Academic Senate. As a Jeannette K. Watson Fellow, she held summer internships at organizations committed to positive social change, such as the United Nations Population Fund and the New York City Global Partners. This summer, she is interning at the Conference Board, a nonprofit group that does research on global business and management practices.<\/p>\n
Book Everyone Should Read:<\/strong> Europe and the People Without a History<\/em> by Eric Wolfe.<\/p>\nFavorite Music<\/strong>: Outlandish, a Danish trio (with musicians from Cuba, Morocco, and Pakistan) that makes socially conscious hip-hop and r&b<\/p>\nSurprising Fact<\/strong>: As a child she met President Nelson Mandela of South Africa and did not know who he was. Ten years later she read his autobiography and was amazed that she had been introduced to him as a 10-year-old at a diplomatic function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Name: Aniqa IslamMajor: Economics and Political Science Year: May 2009From: BangladeshWhy QC: Brother and cousin attended. “I had great relationships with all of my teachers.” – Aniqa Islam Student Profiles Alumni Profiles Faculty Profiles Staff Profiles In the fall of 2010, Aniqa Islam expects to join a master\u2019s program focusing on the economic development of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[137],"class_list":["post-666","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}