He is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA. He taught International Relations at the University of Chittagong for nine years. He graduated from Dhaka University with a bachelor's and a master's degree in international relations. During 2008-9, Mr. Rahman completed a second MA degree from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, with a specialization in terrorism studies, under the Fulbright Scholarship program. He was one of the two Principal Investigators (PI) for a NED (National Endowment for Democracy)-funded project (2020-21) that studied media ownership in Bangladesh. He has co-edited three books: The Politics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Bangladesh (Routledge, 2023), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (Routledge, 2016),  and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh (UPL, 2020).