Fasih Ahmed
Fasih Uddin Ahmed (b. May 31, 1977) or Fasih Ahmed is a Pakistani businessman and journalist.
Biography
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, to Saira and Iqbal Z. Ahmed, Ahmed was schooled at Aitchison College, Lahore. He briefly attended Amherst College, Massachusetts, and has a bachelor's degree in film and theatre arts from Columbia University, New York.
Career
Ahmed is a director at Associated Group (AG), a Pakistani business house in the energy, design and conservation, aviation, and media sectors. He is the editor of Newsweek Pakistan, a collaboration between Newsweek Inc and AG expected to debut in 2010 . As the inaugural Recipient of the Daniel Pearl Fellowship, Ahmed worked at the Washington, DC, bureau of The Wall Street Journal in 2003 . He also received a fellowship at the East-West Institute, Hawaii, the same year . Ahmed has been reporting for Newsweek International and Newsweek.com since 2007. He won a New York Press Club award for Newsweek's coverage of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination . Ahmed has worked at and written for the Pakistani publications The Friday Times, Daily Times, The News, Herald, and Libas. He has been quoted in stories appearing in the New York Times , Christian Science Monitor , and Slate . He has also worked at Merchant-Ivory Productions in New York.