Muhammad Zamir is a career diplomat and senior official of the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Educated at Dhaka where he specialized in literature and law, he also studied Arabic and International Relations at the British Middle-East Centre for Arabic Studies in Shemlan, Lebanon. During his association with diplomacy for about thirty years, he has served in diplomatic assignments in Beirut, Cairo, Tehran, Tripoli, Ottawa, Bangkok and London. He is presently Director and Head of the Department of Political Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His other publications include: Epsilon (1969) a book of verse and Human Rights Issues and International Law (UPL, 1990).