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Ali Riaz

Ali Riaz is a Bangladeshi American political scientist and writer, currently serving as the head of the Bangladesh Constitutional Reform Commission. He is a Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University where he joined in 2002. Most of his work deals with religion and politics, particularly on South Asian politics and political Islam. He has written extensively on Bangladeshi politics and madrasas in South Asia. He was the editor of Studies on Asia, a bi-annual journal of the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs (2010–2015). He was also a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington DC during the Fall of 2013. He is a non-resident senior fellow with the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council. Provided by Wikipedia