Shahidun Nessa Rahman (Bengali: শহীদুন নেসসা রহমান; née Karim Bengali: করিম; born 14 December 1971), commonly known by her pseudonym Shahida Rahman, is an English author, writer and publisher.

[5] In 2009, she was commissioned to write a radio play for the Lascar Heritage Project[11] for Silsila Productions[12] which aired in 2011.

[5] In 2010, she co-wrote the screenplay India Ink with American screenwriter Halle Eavelyn which was based on Rahman's short story Homecoming.

[11] Other works of Rahman include: The Integration of the Hijab into Police Uniforms, The Lascar (radio play), and short stories and articles: Currying Favour, Backbone of the Fleet, The Life of Lascars Aboard Merchant Ships, Cambridge's first Gurdwara, Bangladeshis Trade Curry for College and Taxis, Baishaki Mela, Asian Women Suffragettes in the 1900s, Travel with Kids, The Middle Child Syndrome and Noor Inayat Khan.

[3] Rahman has contributed to and been published in the Best of British,[5] The Great War and SISTERS magazines, Asian World Newspaper,[3] Children of the New Earth, The Huffington Post and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

[13] In May 2016, Rahman was a Liberal Democrat prospective councillor candidate for East Chesterton ward for the second time in the Cambridge City Council election.