Syed Anwar Husain

Early life and education Husain was born on 5 November 1947 to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds from the Bogra District in Rajshahi Division, Dominion of Pakistan. He has a bachelor's and master's from the University of Dhaka. He also has a master's in international history from the University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD from University of London in British administrative history. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship.

Career Husain joined the University of Dhaka in 1970 as a lecturer in the Department of History. He was promoted to professor in 1985. From 1993 to 1996, he served as the chairperson of the Department of History at the University of Dhaka. He was the director general of Bangla Academy from 1997 to 2001.

From 2010 to 2012, he was the founder editor of Daily Sun.