S Ahmed
Biographic Data
| ID | 5465398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Ahmed |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmed |
| SIGNATURE | AHMED S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dhaka |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5455-1962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dental crowding and spacing measurements of the tooth and arch on patients visiting UMDC
A stable and aesthetic set of teeth is ensured by proper alignment. Additionally, a correct tooth position offers excellent conditions for good health and the best possible dental care. However, harmony amongst tooth and arch proportions leads to the continuity and integrity of the dental arch. Any imbalance amongst these components puts a person at risk for dental crowding and spacing, both of which are bad for the function and health of the tee…
Culture as a Fluid Interlocutor
This article articulates culture in the terrain of water diplomacy. Situating the ‘local’ turn in transboundary water discourse, we argue that dialogue should be made a distinct precursor to formal processes of negotiations in South Asia. Notions of ‘culture’ and ‘community’ are revisited to examine shared ground between social/cultural anthropology and diplomacy studies. The central proposition here is that the idea of transition from political …
Still wishing for a world without ‘theatre for development’? A dialogue on theatre, poverty and inequality
Dear Jamil,Thank you for agreeing to take part in a dialogue inspired by your research article ‘Wishing for a World Without “Theatre for Development”: Demystifying the Case of Bangladesh’ (Ahmed 20
Effect of knowledge of community health workers on essential newborn health care
BACKGROUND: This study explored the relationship between the knowledge of community health workers (CHWs)-anganwadi workers (AWWs) and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs)-and their antenatal home visit coverage and effectiveness of the visits, in terms of essential newborn health care practices at the household level in rural India. METHODS: We used data from 302 AWWs and 86 ANMs and data from recently delivered women (RDW) (n=13,023) who were reside…
Revisiting a dream-site of liberation
In 1984, a group of urban theatre activists of Bangladesh rejected their role as ‘traditional intellectuals’, and sought to join the subaltern classes as ‘ideologues in action’ by mobilising their knowledge and expertise on theatre in a manner that would animate those classes entwined in the exploitive infrastructure of the rural areas. This initiative, named Mukta Natak (translated as ‘Liberated Theatre’), was intended to generate a ‘Theatre by …
Mimicry and Counter-Discourse on the Palimpsest of Nagori
Mimicry and Counter-Discourse on the Palimpsest of Nagori:The Play of Saint Anthony and His Double, Sādhu Āntoni Syed Jamil Ahmed Hardly half a kilometer southeast from the Church of Saint Nicholas Tolentino at Nagori, thirty-five kilometers northeast from Daka, Bangladesh, stands the Chapel of Saint Anthony at Panjora. Here, on Friday, 6 February 2009, nearly seventy thousand people gathered to pay homage to the most important saint for the Bang…
Performing and Supplicating Mānik Pīr
Rituals and performances supplicating Mānik Pīr, a Sufi culture-hero venerated in isolated rural pockets of western Bangladesh and southern West Bengal (India), function as “infrapolitics” of the subaltern classes in the domain of “popular Islam.” A substantial segment of popular (“folk”) culture of the subaltern classes articulates disguised ideological insubordination critiquing the dominant classes
Points and Practices
Negotiating ‘theatre (in place/instead) of war’
The small string of words ‘in place of’ is problematic because if it denotes ‘instead of’ then it is questionable whether conflicts and wars can ever be abrogated so long as there are relations of power. However, but if the string denotes a location, i.e. a war zone, then it is not inconsequential that we justify our eagerness for knowledge on performances of war zones when the war machines of the North are in business in the South in this monopo…
Hegemony, Resistance, and Subaltern Silence
June 01 2006 Hegemony, Resistance, and Subaltern Silence: Lessons from Indigenous Performances of Bangladesh Syed Jamil Ahmed Syed Jamil Ahmed Syed Jamil Ahmed is a director based in Bangladesh, and a Professor at the Department of Theatre and Music, University of Dhaka. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Syed Jamil Ahmed Syed Jamil Ahmed is a director based in Bangladesh, and a Profe…
The ‘Non‐dit’ in the Zenana
This essay recognizes that representations of the ‘Muslim woman’ as the Othered ‘object’ of the ‘Western’ gaze and the domesticated ‘object’ which the Islamic apologists strive hard to defend, are both constructions and false antitheses of each other. It seeks not the ‘truth’ regarding the Muslim women in the world of social reality but to examine how various representations of the women are constructed and to what effects and consequences these …
A qualitative study of a successful shared care project for heroin users
Caryā Nŗtya of Nepal When “Becoming the Character” in Asian Performance Is Nonduality in “Quintessence of Void”
Taking issue with Phillip Zarrilli's influential 1990 essay on what it means to “become the character” in Asian performance, Ahmed argues that Zarrilli's construct is problematic when viewed from a Buddhist perspective. Ahmed's case study is Caryā Nŗtya, a ritual dance performed near Kathmandu in Nepal for over a thousand years
Wishing for a World without 'Theatre for Development'
The author argues that Theatre for Development in Bangladesh practised by Non-Governmental Organisations, which is almost entirely funded by international donor organisations, serves globalisation in the name of poverty alleviation. By examining the case of two NGOs, Proshika and Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts, he shows that the NGOs are caught in the contradiction of either empire building for selfsustenance or serving as pseudo-mercenarie…
Obstetrical outcome with increasing maternal age
A retrospective study of 21,442 Singaporean women who gave birth at the National University Hospital, Singapore, between January 1986 and November 1991 is used to assess the effects of increasing age on obstetric performance. The results show that reproduction after the age of 35 years in Singapore is associated with a higher incidence of antenatal complications such as hypertension and diabetes and a higher rate of obstetric intervention. Howeve…
Unequal wealth accumulation and income inequality in a unimodal agriculture
Patterns of income, savings, and wealth accumulation of tenant farmers in the Rahad irrigation scheme of Sudan were examined. Although land and irrigation water are publicly owned and equally distributed in these schemes, unequal access to capital was found to influence strongly the distribution of family income and the saving and accumulation capacities of the tenant farmers. Analysis using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients revealed a high pos…
Effect of knowledge of community health workers on essential newborn health care
BACKGROUND: This study explored the relationship between the knowledge of community health workers (CHWs)-anganwadi workers (AWWs) and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs)-and their antenatal home visit coverage and effectiveness of the visits, in terms of essential newborn health care practices at the household level in rural India. METHODS: We used data from 302 AWWs and 86 ANMs and data from recently delivered women (RDW) (n=13,023) who were reside…
Unequal wealth accumulation and income inequality in a unimodal agriculture
Patterns of income, savings, and wealth accumulation of tenant farmers in the Rahad irrigation scheme of Sudan were examined. Although land and irrigation water are publicly owned and equally distributed in these schemes, unequal access to capital was found to influence strongly the distribution of family income and the saving and accumulation capacities of the tenant farmers. Analysis using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients revealed a high pos…
Obstetrical outcome with increasing maternal age
A retrospective study of 21,442 Singaporean women who gave birth at the National University Hospital, Singapore, between January 1986 and November 1991 is used to assess the effects of increasing age on obstetric performance. The results show that reproduction after the age of 35 years in Singapore is associated with a higher incidence of antenatal complications such as hypertension and diabetes and a higher rate of obstetric intervention. Howeve…
Wishing for a World without 'Theatre for Development'
The author argues that Theatre for Development in Bangladesh practised by Non-Governmental Organisations, which is almost entirely funded by international donor organisations, serves globalisation in the name of poverty alleviation. By examining the case of two NGOs, Proshika and Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts, he shows that the NGOs are caught in the contradiction of either empire building for selfsustenance or serving as pseudo-mercenarie…
Caryā Nŗtya of Nepal When “Becoming the Character” in Asian Performance Is Nonduality in “Quintessence of Void”
Taking issue with Phillip Zarrilli's influential 1990 essay on what it means to “become the character” in Asian performance, Ahmed argues that Zarrilli's construct is problematic when viewed from a Buddhist perspective. Ahmed's case study is Caryā Nŗtya, a ritual dance performed near Kathmandu in Nepal for over a thousand years
A qualitative study of a successful shared care project for heroin users
Negotiating ‘theatre (in place/instead) of war’
The small string of words ‘in place of’ is problematic because if it denotes ‘instead of’ then it is questionable whether conflicts and wars can ever be abrogated so long as there are relations of power. However, but if the string denotes a location, i.e. a war zone, then it is not inconsequential that we justify our eagerness for knowledge on performances of war zones when the war machines of the North are in business in the South in this monopo…
Hegemony, Resistance, and Subaltern Silence
June 01 2006 Hegemony, Resistance, and Subaltern Silence: Lessons from Indigenous Performances of Bangladesh Syed Jamil Ahmed Syed Jamil Ahmed Syed Jamil Ahmed is a director based in Bangladesh, and a Professor at the Department of Theatre and Music, University of Dhaka. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Syed Jamil Ahmed Syed Jamil Ahmed is a director based in Bangladesh, and a Profe…
The ‘Non‐dit’ in the Zenana
This essay recognizes that representations of the ‘Muslim woman’ as the Othered ‘object’ of the ‘Western’ gaze and the domesticated ‘object’ which the Islamic apologists strive hard to defend, are both constructions and false antitheses of each other. It seeks not the ‘truth’ regarding the Muslim women in the world of social reality but to examine how various representations of the women are constructed and to what effects and consequences these …
Points and Practices
Performing and Supplicating Mānik Pīr
Rituals and performances supplicating Mānik Pīr, a Sufi culture-hero venerated in isolated rural pockets of western Bangladesh and southern West Bengal (India), function as “infrapolitics” of the subaltern classes in the domain of “popular Islam.” A substantial segment of popular (“folk”) culture of the subaltern classes articulates disguised ideological insubordination critiquing the dominant classes
Mimicry and Counter-Discourse on the Palimpsest of Nagori
Mimicry and Counter-Discourse on the Palimpsest of Nagori:The Play of Saint Anthony and His Double, Sādhu Āntoni Syed Jamil Ahmed Hardly half a kilometer southeast from the Church of Saint Nicholas Tolentino at Nagori, thirty-five kilometers northeast from Daka, Bangladesh, stands the Chapel of Saint Anthony at Panjora. Here, on Friday, 6 February 2009, nearly seventy thousand people gathered to pay homage to the most important saint for the Bang…
Revisiting a dream-site of liberation
In 1984, a group of urban theatre activists of Bangladesh rejected their role as ‘traditional intellectuals’, and sought to join the subaltern classes as ‘ideologues in action’ by mobilising their knowledge and expertise on theatre in a manner that would animate those classes entwined in the exploitive infrastructure of the rural areas. This initiative, named Mukta Natak (translated as ‘Liberated Theatre’), was intended to generate a ‘Theatre by …
Effect of knowledge of community health workers on essential newborn health care
BACKGROUND: This study explored the relationship between the knowledge of community health workers (CHWs)-anganwadi workers (AWWs) and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs)-and their antenatal home visit coverage and effectiveness of the visits, in terms of essential newborn health care practices at the household level in rural India. METHODS: We used data from 302 AWWs and 86 ANMs and data from recently delivered women (RDW) (n=13,023) who were reside…
Still wishing for a world without ‘theatre for development’? A dialogue on theatre, poverty and inequality
Dear Jamil,Thank you for agreeing to take part in a dialogue inspired by your research article ‘Wishing for a World Without “Theatre for Development”: Demystifying the Case of Bangladesh’ (Ahmed 20
Culture as a Fluid Interlocutor
This article articulates culture in the terrain of water diplomacy. Situating the ‘local’ turn in transboundary water discourse, we argue that dialogue should be made a distinct precursor to formal processes of negotiations in South Asia. Notions of ‘culture’ and ‘community’ are revisited to examine shared ground between social/cultural anthropology and diplomacy studies. The central proposition here is that the idea of transition from political …
Dental crowding and spacing measurements of the tooth and arch on patients visiting UMDC
A stable and aesthetic set of teeth is ensured by proper alignment. Additionally, a correct tooth position offers excellent conditions for good health and the best possible dental care. However, harmony amongst tooth and arch proportions leads to the continuity and integrity of the dental arch. Any imbalance amongst these components puts a person at risk for dental crowding and spacing, both of which are bad for the function and health of the tee…
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