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Part of his PhD research was published as AchinpÄkhi
Infinity: Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh. Kamala Ranir Sagar Dighi (based on the indigenous form of narrative performance Pala Gan) in 1997 in Dhaka, Ek Hazar Aur Ek Thi Rate (based on The Thousand and One Nights) in 1998 in Karachi, Behular Bhasan (an adaptation of the Padma Puran) 2004 in Dhaka, Pahiye (Hindi translation of Chaka) at the National School of Drama in New Delhi in 2006, and Shong Bhong Chong (based on the indigenous theatre form of Shong Jatra), in Dhaka in 2009 all were influenced by his time in rural Bangladesh. They contributed to him winning the Nandikar National Theatre Award, in Calcutta, in 1999. Behular Bhasan participated in Bharat Rang Mahotav, New Delhi, 2006, and Leela: South Asian Women's Theatre Festival, Kolkata and New Delhi, 2010.
602:"Le Bangladesh, scenes melees", La Scene et la Terre: Questions dâEthnoscenologie, Babel, Maison des Culture du Monde, Paris, 1996. "Fremforingsteknikker I det etniske teatret I Bangladesh", Spillerom, Norsk Dukketeater Akademi, 1/1995. "Decolonized Roots and Postcolonial Wings: The Minoritarian Theatrescape of Rabindranath Tagore" , Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature, 29: 261-306 (Spring 2013). "If/After the âLamp of the Eastâ Has Been Lighted Again, Whither Rabindranathâs Iimaginary of Asia and Orient?", Barima Literary Magazine, No. 2, 215-234 (in Korean), 235-254 (in English). Zai "Xiangzheng" he "Daibiao" de Jiaojiemian, in Zhang Boyu (ed.) Music Cultures around Himalaya (In Chinese: Huan Xima Laya Yinyue Wenhua Yanjiu). Beijing: Central Conservatory of Music Press, 2015.
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the shift from the painted scene design of the 1970s to the realist, symbolic and surrealist design in the 1980s. He was awarded the Munir
Chowdhury Samman in 1993 for his influence in the realist design. After eight years of free-lance theatre practice, Ahmed studied under Clive Barker at the University of Warwick in England, in 1987â88. Barker introduced him to Theatre-for-Development (Applied Theatre today) and in Latin America and Africa. Upon his return home, he engaged with a left-leaning landless farmersâ political party, and then with international and national Non-Governmental Organizations working in Bangladesh. In 1992, he was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship by the Ashoka Foundation (USA). By 1995, he was disillusioned on all applied theatre fronts.
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unpinned grenade in trousers pocket." Ahmed came in touch with an amateur theatre group named Dhaka
Theatre in 1974 and began to consider theatre as a career. In 1975, Ahmed received a scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), and dropped out of English Literature BA (Hons) programme at the University of Dhaka to join the
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Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, has been the introduction of theatre-for-development, theatre-in-education, performance studies, sociology of theatre, and psychoanalysis in theatre. His academic work led him to be awarded two Fulbright Fellowships The first time, in 1990, his award took him to
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From 1993 to 1997, he embarked on "voyages" to distant rural pockets of
Bangladesh and attended numerous performances of the indigenous theatre in situ. He was awarded PhD by the University of Dhaka in 1997 for his thesis on "Indigenous Theatrical Performance in Bangladesh: Its History and Practice".
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Ahmed was born in Dhaka on April 7, 1955. He joined the
Liberation War in 1971 as a freedom fighter. The violence of the war impacted him, "having seen dead bodies rotting with gaping holes and the charred remains of abandoned homes, having walked the streets of Dhaka city, clasping the clip of an
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Ahmed joined the
University of Dhaka in 1989 and later founded the Department of Theatre and Music in 1994. He built a performance-oriented pedagogy, which led to its recognition as a major centre of experimental and innovative productions. His major contribution to the pedagogy of the department,
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Syed Jamil Ahmed, Who's Who in
Contemporary World Theatre (ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe), London: Routledge: 2000, p. 5. Baidyanath Mukhopadhyay, Samsad Bangla Natya Abhidhan , Kolkata: Shishu Sahitya Samsad, 2000, p.
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Syed Jamil Ahmed (2002). "Wishing for a World without 'Theatre for Development': demystifying the case of Bangladesh".
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Renowned theatre personality Syed Jamil Ahmed appointed new Shilpakala DG, The Financial Express, 11 September 2024
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Syed Jamil Ahmed, Acinpakhi Infinity: Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh, Dhaka: University Press Ltd, 2000, p. xv.
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Clive Barker (May 2003). "Review of In Praise of Niranjan: Islam Theatre and Bangladesh".
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Trtiya Bishwer Bikalpa Natyadhara: Unnayan Natya: Tattwa O Prayog, Shamabesh, Dhaka, 2001.
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