A special series on Bangladesh’s first election after the 2024 July Revolution as the country searches for new paths in the wake of Sheikh Hasina’s autocratic rule
Even if the Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins, the Jamaat-e-Islami looks set to become a formidable opposition force, shifting the country’s political centre further to the right
With women comprising only four percent of candidates in 2026 general election, Bangladesh’s post-Hasina transition is reproducing the patriarchy it promised to dismantle
An alliance with the student-led National Citizen Party gives the Jamaat-e-Islami a chance to rebrand ahead of Bangladesh’s first election since the July Revolution
Sociologist Samina Luthfa talks about how women have been caught between an interim government failing to protect them and rising Islamist conservatism targeting their freedoms
The unrest that followed Sharif Osman Hadi’s death was 18 months in the making, as an unresolved revolution, selective justice and tolerated street violence steadily destabilised Bangladesh
