Tasmima Hossain

Tasmima Hossain (; born 1951) and Anannya.

Early life Hossain was born in 1951 to a Bengali family in Dacca, East Bengal, then part of the Dominion of Pakistan. She is originally from Gendaria.

Career Hossain was elected to parliament in 1996 from Pirojpur-2 as a Jatiya Party candidate. In 1988, she was made the editor of Anannya magazine. She was a founding member of Breaking the Silence, a non profit, and its chairperson for a number of years. In 2014, she became the deputy editor of The Daily Ittefaq. On 4 July 2018, she was made the editor of The Daily Ittefaq. Hossain's youngest daughter, Anushay Hossain, is a journalist and former political analyst based in the United States, who in her nonfiction book The Pain Gap, wrote about the influence of her mother during her childhood.