Quazi Anwara Monsur
{{short description|Bangladeshi educator}}
{{infobox person
|name=Quazi Anwara Monsur
|native_name=কাজী আনোয়ারা মনসুর
|native_name_lang=bn
|alma_mater=Lady Brabourne College
|nationality=Bangladeshi
|spouses=Kazi Abul Monsur
|children=3, including Shahidul Alam
|relatives=Rokeya Mannan (sister)
|death_date={{death date and given age|2007|06|14|df=y|83}}
|death_place=Dhaka, Bangladesh
}}
Quazi Anwara Monsur (died on 14 June 2007){{Cite web |date=2007-06-16 |title=The Last Goodbye|url=https://shahidulnews.com/the-last-goodbye/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |language=en-US}} was a Bangladeshi educationist. She was the founder of Agrani School and College.{{cite web|url=https://www.asc.edu.bd/|script-title=bn:অগ্রণী স্কুল এন্ড কলেজে স্বাগতম|accessdate=2025-02-06|publisher=Agrani School and College}} She was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak in 1999 by the government of Bangladesh for her work contribution on child education.{{cite news|url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/49262/cmm-asks-jail-authorities-to-act-according-to-jail-code-|title=CMM asks jail authorities to act according to jail code|accessdate=2025-02-06|date=2018-08-28}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.kalerkantho.com/print-edition/news/2018/08/28/673608 |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=Kaler Kantho|date=2018-08-28|script-title=bn:প্রথম শ্রেণির মর্যাদা দেওয়ার আবেদন|trans-title=Application for the first class status}}
Background
Quazi Anwara Monsur studied in Lady Brabourne College. She completed her PhD in 1980.
Career
Personal life
Quazi Anwara Monsur was married to Kazi Abul Monsur, an Independence Day Award winning microbiologist. Their son, Shahidul Alam, is a Ekushey Padak winning photojournalist.{{Cite web |title=Holding on to the moral compass |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/119886/holding-on-to-the-moral-compass |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230223153645/https://www.newagebd.net/article/119886/holding-on-to-the-moral-compass |archive-date=2023-02-23 |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=New Age |language=en|date=2020-10-25}} They had another son, Khaled Monsur and a daughter, Nazma Karim Dipu.{{Cite web |date=2018-09-17 |script-title=bn:মায়ের চোখে শহিদুল আলম |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/opinion/column/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AE|access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Prothomalo |language=bn}}{{Cite news |title=Monsur Research Lab to be established at IMC |url=https://dailyasianage.com/news/108004/monsur-research-lab-to-be--established-at-imc |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Asian Age |language=en|date=2018-02-12}} Anwara had a younger sister, Rokeya Mannan (1935–2012), a social activist who won Begum Rokeya Padak in 2005.{{Cite news |date=2012-03-30 |title=Rokeya Mannan passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-228258 |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=Two Get Begum Rokeya Padak-2005 |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/01/19/d60119060666.htm |access-date=2025-02-06 |work=The Daily Star|date=2006-01-19}}
Monsur died on 14 June 2007 in Dhaka and buried at New Azimpur Graveyard.
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Category:Bangladeshi women educators
Category:Recipients of Begum Rokeya Padak
Category:Place of birth missing