Ahmed Rashid

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ahmed Rashid, 2014

Ahmed Rashid (* 1948 in Rawalpindi , Pakistan ) is a British- Pakistani journalist , author and correspondent for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia .

Life

He speaks punjabi and grew up in Great Britain, where his family had moved. He studied at Malvern College England, at Government College Lahore and at Cambridge Fitzwilliam College . He witnessed the Soviet invasion of Kabul in 1979 and the Taliban attack on Kandahar in 1994. Rashid works and publishes for the Daily Telegraph , the Far Eastern Economic Review , the Wall Street Journal and The Nation, as well as for professional journals.

His book Taliban, Afghan Warriors of God and Jihad, which was published in 2000, was on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks, sold 1.5 million times after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and is available in 26 languages. His book is also used as a textbook at around 200 US universities. In 2001 the Taliban received the book prize from the British-Kuwait Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

In February 2002 Rashid published his book Holy War in the Hindu Kush - The Struggle for Power and Belief in Central Asia (original: Jihad , The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia ) with Yale University Press. This work has been translated into 15 languages ​​and is also used as a textbook at universities in the USA, Europe and Japan.

Rashid's first book The Resurrection of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism (original: The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism? ) Deals with the collapse of the Soviet Union and was published in 1994 by Zed Books in London and New York.

Rashid was also co-author of the two works Islam and Central Asia (original: Islam and Central Asia. An enduring legacy or an evolving threat? ) By Roald Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower from 2000 and Fundamentalism Reborn, Afghanistan and the Taliban by William Maley from 1998. In 2001, Ahmed Rashid received the Nisar Osmani Award for Courage in Journalism from the Human Rights Society of Pakistan.

In 2002 Rashid was honored with the award for media personality of the year, given by the English "Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards".

In January 2002, Rashid founded the Open Media Fund for Afghanistan (OMFA), which provides funds for newly founded and committed newspaper projects across Afghanistan. US $ 300,000 has already been given to newspapers that publish in various languages ​​( Pashto , Uzbek and Persian ) throughout Afghanistan . The OMFA is registered in the USA and is directed by the Soros Foundation and the Foundation for Civil Society and Culture in Kabul. OMFA's donors include Time-Warner, the Soros Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Dow Jones, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and other European and international media companies.

Rashid was a member of the Soros Foundation's Eurasia Advisory Board, a researcher at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and a reviewer for Human Rights Watch . In 2004 he was admitted to the Advisory Board of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.

He lectured at universities and lectured at international meetings. In 2002, at the invitation of the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan , Rashid was the first journalist to address the UN General Assembly to commemorate the signing of the Petersberg Process with Afghanistan. In September 2003 he reported to the NATO ambassadors in Brussels on the political situation in Afghanistan.

Rashid comments on political conflict on CNN and BBC World News . He lives in Lahore with his wife Angeles and their two children .

Sultan Ghalib II bin Awadh al-Quʿaiti is his brother-in-law .

Publications

  • The Reawakening of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism? Droemer Verlag, 1994.
  • Taliban - Afghanistan's warriors of God and jihad. Droemer Verlag, 2000.
  • Holy War in the Hindu Kush - The Struggle for Power and Belief in Central Asia. 2002.
  • Descent into chaos. The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Penguin, 2008
    • in German: fall into chaos. Afghanistan, Pakistan and the return of the Taliban , translated by Alexandra Steffes and Henning Hoff, Weltkiosk Verlag, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-942377-00-3 (Henning Hoff in the foreword: "NB The German edition is based on the [. ..] Paperback edition of "Descent into Chaos." It has been shortened by the introduction and nine chapters, the epilogue has been expanded and updated to form a final chapter [...] and notes and sources [...] have been slightly thinned out ". )
  • Taliban. Afghanistan's fighters for God and the new war in the Hindu Kush , translated by Harald Riemann and Rita Seuss; Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2nd edition 2011 ISBN 978-3-406-60628-1
  • Ahmed Rashid: On the edge . Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West. 1st edition. Edition Weltkiosk, New York, London 2012, ISBN 978-3-942377-06-5 (English: Pakistan on the Brink . Translated by Henning Hoff).

Web links

Commons : Ahmed Rashid  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Spörl: Purgatory of Fundamentalism. In: DER SPIEGEL. August 2, 2010, p. 106
  2. ↑ Gerhard Spörl: Purgatory of Fundamentalism. In: DER SPIEGEL. August 2, 2010, p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Rashid, Ahmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani author and correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rawalpindi , Pakistan