Rehman Rashid
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Rehman Rashid (born 1955) is a prominent Malaysian journalist and writer.
[edit] Personal life and career
Born in Taiping, Perak, Rehman's father is of Arab-Indian stock while his mother is Tamil-Eurasian parentage . He studied in the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, before pursuing a degree in Marine Biology at University College Swansea in Wales.[1] He was well known at University for writing folk songs and performing them at every opportunity.
Rehman became a journalist in 1981. Prior to this, he worked with the Fisheries Research Institute in Penang and as a research associate with the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science of Universiti Putra Malaysia.
After seven years as Leader Writer and columnist with the New Straits Times, Malaysia's leading English-language daily, he joined Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong as a Senior Writer. From there, he left for a year in Bermuda, as a Senior Writer with the Bermuda Business magazine, before returning home to Malaysia to complete the book A Malaysian Journey.
He was the Malaysian Press Institute's Journalist of the Year for 1985, and Bermuda's Print Journalist of the Year for 1991.
Rehman currently lives in Bangsar, Malaysia.
[edit] References
- ^ Khoo, Gaik Cheng; Cheng, Khoo Gaik (2006-11). Reclaiming Adat: contemporary Malaysian film and literature. NUS Press. p. 59. ISBN 9789971693381. http://books.google.com/books?id=3u9XF4naanMC&pg=PA59. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
