He is also the moderator of several Talk show programmes in Bangladesh. In June 2009 Monica married fellow opera singer, tenor Brandon McReynolds, but still retained her surname. Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, to Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, a jeweler, and his mother was Sufia Khatun. My brother Salam, though only 10, was already behaving like a political analyst and information source – which he has remained ever since. I got to see family members — including 25 cousins — that I had never met, and also learned about the part of my heritage that I didn’t know too much about. I even wrote one, a complete whodunnit at the age of 12.

My mother, Sofia Khatun was a strong and decisive woman.

Sofia was also a very generous and kind-hearted lady who always helped the poor people that knocked on her door.

In March 1977 his wife Vera gave birth to their first and only child Monica Yunus.

However, by now Vera had become disillusioned and frustrated with her life in Bangladesh. You can hit high notes that I can’t reach. In 1957 I went to DU, but the four years that I spent there were uneventful and dull. These include: 2000: Gandhi Peace Prize 2006: Nobel Peace Prize 2009: Presidential Medal of Freedom. ...My father was a devout Muslim all his life, and made three pilgrimages to Makkah. She was a beautiful woman who was a great cook and had "a gift for telling endless stories". Yunus was born at a time when Chittagong was a hotbed of anti-colonial activities. OWSD provides research training and networking opportunities for women scientists throughout the developing world at different stages in their careers.

Last updated: 10 October 2017 From the section Muhammad Yunus.

He is married to Afrozi Yunus.

Today, it’s the second biggest city in Bangladesh after the capital Dhaka and is the largest port in Bangladesh. We are what we are largely because of him. But almost immediately after Monica’s birth, the family became engulfed in a crisis. Study of mechanical and electrical properties of natural products of Bangladesh eg. The air battles over our heads were never intensive. She was full of compassion and kindness, and probably the strongest influence on me. This party was confined to our own college, Chittagong College, but it was a dominant party with a good chance of winning the election for the students’ union. Since then, we have always lived close to the office, and even today we live within the office complex. The couple had 14 children, of whom 5 died in infancy. We were against the government of the day which was oppressively conservative and exploited the religious sentiment of the people, but this did not mean I was ready to take orders from the highly regimented and secretive underground ultra-left party which controlled us as one of their front organisations. Dula and Sofia remained married for over half a century until Sofia’s sad demise in 1982 after a long battle with mental illness. He won the Competitive Scholarship Examination by beating all the students from all the high schools in the Chittagong District and received a monthly stipend as an award. Following their marriage, Afrozi went back to England to continue her research for few months and then returned. In July Vera left the country with their child and brought her back to US to live her parents in Ewing, New Jersey. He took loving care of Mother in every possible way and in all circumstances for the 33 years that her disease lasted. Not simply scholastic achievement, but also civic pride, the importance of spiritual beliefs, respect for the arts, admiration for the music and poetry of our greatest poets (Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam), and of course respect for authority and discipline.

Yunus was also close to his elder sister Mumtaz who inherited many of their mother's qualities. Physics.

Three years later, in 1980, Dr Yunus married Afrozi Yunus who was then a researcher in physics at Manchester University, UK. Looking for something to watch? Bangladesh, she felt, was the wrong place to raise their child. 1977 was a turning point in Dr Muhammad Yunus' life in more ways than one. One day when I was about 10 she said to me, "Wow, you are really good at this.

OšO¡9(ù8Ô´miE~ÄĞ. It was a sort of permanent carnival atmosphere. But my particular attraction to it was the encouragement it gave to boyscouting.

All day long we heard drivers arguing, yelling, blaring their horns.

Research and Profession. Member Profile. A new nation was formed much to the excitement of 7-year-old Yunus: Pakistan. With its vast verandahs and wide-open spaces, I have always felt that it resembles a transatlantic steamer.

This time it was a fellow Bengali.

He did not do this through preaching, but through deeds and heart-to-heart communication which had a lifelong effect on me. But Quazi Sahib electrified my imagination. Four years later, Yunus once again travelled as a boyscout but this time to Japan and the Philippines. In 1970, Yunus married Vera Forostenko. He said he was weeping for our destiny, the burden of history that we were carrying and not knowing what to do with it. In 1966 Yunus would travel abroad for the third time - to USA - but this time he was a grown man and all on his own. The 200-year-old British rule was finally coming to an end and the separatist requirement of the minority Muslim population became a reality in 1947. Then education was limited to those who could afford it.

Before relocating, the family lived in a small village. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.

I had always been a natural leader but Quazi Sahib's moral influence taught me to think high and to channel my passions. They were a much more sophisticated lot than the pupils I had been with before and many went on to high stations in life and became government officials themselves. But I went with him to Russia, Spain, and France. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, which pioneered microcredit.

All of us there, even the teachers, spoke in the Chittagonian dialect. WÙ]~Y—W×ø1\‘õşÊ»ár§hW¿¹%÷JnYß/ÖOW…Ÿ†A!×wöä Membership type: full Afrozi Yunus Country of origin: Bangladesh General field of specialization: Physics.

Father was a devout Muslim but had many Hindu friends and close colleagues. The couple had a daughter together but divorced in 1979.
Yunus became very close to the assistant headmaster of Chittagong CS, Quazi Sirajul Huq.

I respect Vera and cherish my time with her.


Mumtaz prepares the best sweets of all.

Dr. Yunus resides permanently in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport city on the Karnaphuli River near the Bay of Bengal.

It [the interest in opera] started when I was pretty little and my mom and I would sing in the car. Growing up in such a large family taught me early on the central importance of babies (sometimes I took care of two at a time), the importance of family loyalty, peer pressure and peer support, but also the value of compromise when living in a large group. He never settled for anything but the best for his children’s upbringing. One would have only intermittent contact with Muhammad Yunus over the next two decades, while the other would receive his constant attention.

I like to joke with him that he lives on an airplane.

So we decided to give it a try. He began his education at the local village school.

The Japanese had invaded neighbouring Burma and were at the doorstep of Chittagong, threatening all of India. ...At the age of 7 this was the first shot of pride and intoxicating enthusiasm for our people I had felt in my veins. As a devout Muslim, Father did not believe in reproducing the human figure.

Deena Afroz Yunus was born to Muhammad Yunus and Afrozi Yunus in 1986. Despite its constructional oddities - the rooms are too big, the the hallways too lavish and not functional enough, and many things could be improved, but we love the place.