Tahseen H. Ali holds a PhD from the University of Houston–Main Campus, in the United States of America, where he studied the history of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent, with a secondary specialisation in the field of US history with a focus on Cold War diplomacy since 1945, and a tertiary concentration in Modern Germany since 1815.
After obtaining his doctorate degree in 2008 Ali has taught variously at East West University in Dhaka, at the University of Houston and the Lone Star College System in Texas.
He was until quite recently a full-time member of the faculty of the History Department at the Houston Community College System.
Ali writes on historical, political, cultural and contemporary issues affecting South Asia and on a broad range of issues dealing with current US-Bangladesh relations, contributing articles, op-eds and interviews to newspapers, journals and other publications, both in the United States and Bangladesh.
A Bangladeshi-American, Ali is originally from Dinajpur in Northern Bengal.