Nurul Amin – Lost Histories of South Asian America

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Nurul Sr., it turned out, had been a close friend of Alaudin Ullah’s parents, Habib Sr. and Mohima, and after Nurul Jr. and Alaudin spoke, they realized they had visited each others’ houses when Alaudin was a small boy. In the summer of 2013, we arranged for Nurul to visit Mohima in the assisted living facility where she was temporarily a patient. Nurul brought a stack of letters that he had saved – written to his father, in Bengali, from family members in Bangldesh in the 1980’s. He needed Mohima’s help to find out what they said.

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Nurul Sr., it turned out, had been a close friend of Alaudin Ullah’s parents, Habib Sr. and Mohima, and after Nurul Jr. and Alaudin spoke, they realized they had visited each others’ houses when Alaudin was a small boy. In the summer of 2013, we arranged for Nurul to visit Mohima in the assisted living facility where she was temporarily a patient. Nurul brought a stack of letters that he had saved – written to his father, in Bengali, from family members in Bangldesh in the 1980’s. He needed Mohima’s help to find out what they said.

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Nurul Sr., it turned out, had been a close friend of Alaudin Ullah’s parents, Habib Sr. and Mohima, and after Nurul Jr. and Alaudin spoke, they realized they had visited each others’ houses when Alaudin was a small boy. In the summer of 2013, we arranged for Nurul to visit Mohima in the assisted living facility where she was temporarily a patient. Nurul brought a stack of letters that he had saved – written to his father, in Bengali, from family members in Bangldesh in the 1980’s. He needed Mohima’s help to find out what they said.

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Nurul Sr., it turned out, had been a close friend of Alaudin Ullah’s parents, Habib Sr. and Mohima, and after Nurul Jr. and Alaudin spoke, they realized they had visited each others’ houses when Alaudin was a small boy. In the summer of 2013, we arranged for Nurul to visit Mohima in the assisted living facility where she was temporarily a patient. Nurul brought a stack of letters that he had saved – written to his father, in Bengali, from family members in Bangldesh in the 1980’s. He needed Mohima’s help to find out what they said.

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Nurul Sr., it turned out, had been a close friend of Alaudin Ullah’s parents, Habib Sr. and Mohima, and after Nurul Jr. and Alaudin spoke, they realized they had visited each others’ houses when Alaudin was a small boy. In the summer of 2013, we arranged for Nurul to visit Mohima in the assisted living facility where she was temporarily a patient. Nurul brought a stack of letters that he had saved – written to his father, in Bengali, from family members in Bangldesh in the 1980’s. He needed Mohima’s help to find out what they said.

Nurul Amin

In 2013, after publication of the Bengali Harlem book, I was contacted by Nurul Amin, Jr. the son of Nurul Amin, a ship worker from the Noakhali District of East Bengal/Bangladesh, who settled and married in Harlem in the 1940s and then moved his family to Staten Island. Nurul Sr., it turned out, had been a close friend of Alaudin Ullah’s parents, Habib Sr. and Mohima, and after Nurul Jr. and Alaudin spoke, they realized they had visited each others’ houses when Alaudin was a small boy. In the summer of 2013, we arranged for Nurul to visit Mohima in the assisted living facility where she was temporarily a patient. Nurul brought a stack of letters that he had saved – written to his father, in Bengali, from family members in Bangldesh in the 1980’s. He needed Mohima’s help to find out what they said.