Ahmed Rashid, who wrote Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia, is a senior Pakistani journalist with 21 years experience covering the Middle East who is now a special correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan for Britain's Daily Express and Hong Kong's Far Eastern Economic Review.
新新聞文化事業選擇的是由巴基斯坦籍、採訪中東新聞達二十一年的資深記者阿哈瑪・拉希德的《神學士：歐瑪爾與賓・拉登的『全球聖戰』》，拉希德目前仍擔任英國《每日電訊報》及《遠東經濟評論》駐巴基斯坦與阿富汗的特派員。