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Living in Dacca:

Pat Hill’s In the Moon-Bazar & Short Pieces Stories assembled by Mary Frances Dunham and graphic design by Katherine Dunham Pat Hill was one of Mary Frances’ closest friends when they both lived in Dhaka in the 1960’s. Pat’s stories of her experiences living in Dhaka and abroad provide a witty alternative take on many of

Bike Advocacy Since she first rode a bike at 5, Mary Frances Dunham (MFD) has made it her mission around the world to encourage the use of bikes instead of cars.  In the early 1970s, she was among the original handful of members at Transportation Alternatives  advocating for better bike awareness and support in New

Some Weep, Some Laugh: Memoirs of an American Family in Dacca 1960-1967 by Mary Frances DunhamEditing and graphic layout by Katherine Dunham. (Formerly titled In the Wake of the Raj, Our Lives in Dacca from 1960-1967) Over an intensive three years starting in 2013, I helped my mother document in this 5-volume set of books

Ahmed Sofa’s Stories: Tales of Flowers, Trees and Birds English translation and editing by Mary Frances Dunham in collaboration with Ahmed Sofa and Salimullah Khan, PhD.   MFD first met Ahmed Sofa in Dhaka in the 1990s and immediately was an admirer of his writing.  As the two became close friends, she took on the mission of

Childs / Raphael Family Tree This family tree is an on-going project which, by it’s nature, will never be finished. I initially started it in 2014 as a birthday gift to my mother, Mary Frances Dunham, and her brother, Christopher Raphael. Since then, I have updated the book with corrections and additional family history a

Jarigan: Muslim Epic Songs of Bangladesh By Mary Frances Dunham Published by The University Press Limited, 1997 Dhaka, Bangladesh Sponsored by The Ford Foundation & The University Press Limited. …in this study we see the remarkable absorption of literature from the Middle East into the Bengali folk songs. Stories from Muharram passion plays, Biblical-Koranic parables,

Ravi Shankar: Learning Indian Music a Systematic Approach Edited by Elise Barnett and Mary Frances Dunham This book was one of the first of its kind to introduce and teach Indian classical music to a Western audience. Professor Elise Barnett came up with the idea to make this book based on the lecture series Ravi