Fareena Alam is Editor of Q News, a British Muslim Magazine.Fareena is of Bangladeshi Chittagonian parentage and she grew up in Singapore.During this time she was elected as the vice-president and then president of the United Nations Students' Association, National University of Singapore, for which she organised a six month awareness campaign called 'The Children of Bangladesh.' The campaign highlighted the plight of the street children and she then took the campaign a stage further by leading a student delegation of twenty to carry out relief work in Bangladesh for three weeks in 1998.