

He said he had little to tell law enforcement anyway, because he and his sister had been "estranged" since she got married. The Ohio family hired a lawyer to deal with the FBI, Rasel wrote. Agents grilled him and confiscated his computer, becoming alarmed by emails about "urban terror" that were actually just a reference to a computer game the old crew played, he wrote. In the Skype chat, Rasel said he learned about it the summer of 2013 when the FBI showed up at the family home in Ohio. Her brother Rasel told Chu that his sister and brother-in-law reported losing their passports while abroad and "caused a big fuss at the embassy asking to come back to America and were on the watch list for terrorism."

When she moved to the West Coast in 2010, just as he was about to start high school, he felt abandoned, he wrote.Īccording to the cousin, Ahmed, Zakia was pregnant at the time and planned to have the baby there, but she miscarried and they returned to the United States after a couple of months. Throughout childhood, Rasel Raihan had seen his big sister Zakia as his mentor - "guiding me right from wrong," as he once wrote a friend. Jones was bewildered to learn that Zakia had left Ohio for California and married Jaffrey Khan. Her best friend from high school, Meagan Jones, became so worried when Zakia suddenly cut off contact that she reached out to her parents in late 2010. Instead, she seemed to drop out of sight. After a cancer-research internship that summer, she was supposed to start at Ohio State. She graduated from Metro with a perfect 4.0 average and was named one of 26 valedictorians in the Class of 2010. A video shows her working with the crops in a T-shirt and leggings, talking in a soft voice about the marvel of a harvest. And Zakia delivered.Īt Metro, she was one of just four students chosen to take part in the innovative student farm program at Ohio State. In 2018 it was won by planner and theorist Denise Scott Brown while the inaugural medal went to Spanish architect Rafael Moneo in 2017.Their hard-working parents - the father works two jobs, including nights at a gas station - placed a premium on academic achievement. The Soane Medal was last awarded in 2019 when it went to critic, historian and former architect Kenneth Frampton. MTA's website says it seeks to stand against the ‘global pressure of consumer architecture, a fast breed of buildings that are out of place and context’. She currently runs a master’s atudio at TU Delft, and has previously been a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Texas and BRAC University in Dhaka. In 2018, she took part in Freespace, the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale for Architecture, where she explored the Bengali courtyard. She shot to international prominence when the Bait ur Rouf Mosque won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. Tabassum set up her own practice in 2005 after 10 years at her previous practice Urbana.

Rizwan Ahamd, Director, IMC, the film Transforming India : A Documentary of Bio-Fertilizers is directed by Mr. ‘All her work is underpinned by a focus on sustainability and Tabassum is truly leading the conversation about the ways in which architecture, people and planet interact.’ Hyderabad: Two films produced by Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Instructional Media Centre (IMC) have been selected for International Science Film Festival 2021.
