Samia Khatun is a historian because she once lost her way to a mathematics lecture. Since then, she has chased truths about the past in Sydney, Antigua, Kolkata, Istanbul, Berlin, New York, Dunedin, Melbourne, London and Dhaka. Her documentaries have screened on ABC and SBS-TV in Australia. She has recently been appointed Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.