Maimuna has received a fellowship for fiction at the Vermont Studio Center, a PARC Faculty Development Seminar Grant, and an NEH Summer Institute Grant on Early Islam. She has written, presented, and taught on Islamophobia, the war on terror, encounters between the Western and the Muslim worlds, American immigrant experiences post-1967, and minority pedagogy. An intrepid traveler, Maimuna has visited over twenty different countries throughout Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. A first-generation Bangladeshi-American with roots in both countries, Maimuna is currently working on a novel as well as a series of articles on solidarity movements.