Dr Azeem Ibrahim obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and served as a Research Fellow at the International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a World Fellow at Yale, Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors at the Institute for Social Policy Understanding and an Adjunct Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute US Army War College. He founded and actively chairs a private grant-giving foundation (www.ibrahimfoundation.com) focusing on innovative community projects. He served as a reservist in the UK's 4th Battalion Parachute Regiment. When not running his business interests across the world he teaches at the Harris Public Policy School, University of Chicago.
'The persecution of Rohingyas rests on a belief that they are
outsiders ... Ibrahim debunks these claims in his essential new
book, claiming that Rohingyas were in Arakan well before 1784 ...
Ibrahim offers a credible genealogy that links Rohingyas to
Indo-Aryan groups who arrived from the Ganges Valley as early as
3000 BC.'
*London Review of Books*
'Ibrahim dwells on the history of the Rohingya in order to give an
account of how and why they have come to arouse such fear and
loathing. ... [his] analysis is excellent,'
*Literary Review*
'Ibrahim's brilliantly researched book exposes the dark underbelly
of this emerging state. Discrimination against minorities is
rampant, but most acutely against the Muslim Rohingyas who are
persecuted at the hands of the vast Buddhist majority. This
important book exposes very great suffering that even Myanmar's now
elected leaders have little or no interest in combatting.'
*Jon Snow, Channel 4 News*
'In Azeem Ibrahim's The Rohingyas, the author wonderfully details
how a historical canard is used as a pretext to completely erase
them from Myanmar. The book also explores the fact that among 135
ethnic minorities, Rohingyas are the worst treated, stripped of all
rights as citizens, depleted of wealth and property, pushed to the
edge, and systematically exterminated.'
*Dhaka Tribune*
'In exploring and exposing the treatment of the Rohingya people of
Burma Azeem Ibrahim has done great service to the truth about the
terrible oppression which they are enduring, and has issued a call
to all free people to secure international action to uphold their
basic human rights.'
*Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary
Group on Burma*
'Time and time again, experience has shown that what minorities who
live under the threat of annihilation need most is a voice that
cannot be ignored. The Rohingyas promises to provide desperately
needed awareness at a critical turning point in the history of
Burma - awareness provided by a renowned and accomplished scholar
and policy advisor, Dr. Azeem Ibrahim.'
*Steven Kiersons, Team Lead, Burma, The Sentinel Project for
Genocide Prevention*
'In the last decade of the twentieth century the genocides in
Rwanda and Bosnia could have been prevented by earlier active
engagement by the international community. Azeem Ibrahim has issued
a clarion call to protect a vulnerable and little-known Muslim
minority in his compelling and throughly researched book. He makes
a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to
prevent a foreseeable genocide in the twenty-first.'
*John Shattuck, President of the Central European University,
former US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights
and Labor, and author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and
America's Response*
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