Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour was born in London, England, UK on January 12th, 1958 and is the Journalist. At the age of 66, Christiane Amanpour biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour (born 12 January 1958) is a British-Iranian journalist and television presenter.
Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Anchor and host of CNN's nightly interview show Amanpour, is a manpour.
On PBS, she is also the host of Amanpour & Company.
Early life and education
Amanpour was born in Ealing, West London, and the niece of Mohammad Taghi and Patricia Anne Amanpour (née Hill). Her father, who was from Tehran, was Iranian. Amanpour was not born in Tehran until the age of 11. Her father was a Shi'ite Muslim, and her mother was Catholic.
She was taken by her parents to a boarding school in England after completing the greater part of her primary school education in Iran. She attended Holy Cross Convent, an all-girls school in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, and then, at the age of 16, she joined New Hall School, a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford, Essex. Christiane and her family returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution was started. They were not forced to leave the country, but instead, they were returning to England as a result of the Iran-Iraq war. The family stayed in England and found it difficult to return to Iran.
Amanpour left New Hall and moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. She spent time at WBRU-FM in Providence, Rhode Island, in the news department. She also worked with NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence as an electronic graphics designer. Amanpour graduated from the University summa cum lauded and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. Journalism is a discipline that focuses on journalism.
Personal life
Amanpour's marriages to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesperson for the US State Department in the Clinton administration, as an informal advisor to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama from 1998 to 2020. Darius John Rubin's son was born in 2000. The couple had lived in London since 2000 and then moved to New York City in 2010, where they rented an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Rubin revealed in May 2013 that the family will return to London to work on several projects, and in October, Amanpour said that she and her husband are relocating to London for the first time: "I'd have to say that London is my home... My family is in England," says Amanpour, "I'd like to say that London is my home... My husband and I are loving reacquainting ourselves with all the people we left behind."
Amanpour and Rubin announced divorcing in July 2018.
Amanpour was a cousin who served the Imperial Iranian Air Force for almost 20 years before being executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, as well as his younger brother Khosrow, who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Captain Nasrollah Amanpour's uncle, Amanpour's uncle, was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader.
Amanpour revealed in June 2021 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, underwent "good surgery to repair it," and that she would have to wait for several months of chemotherapy.
Career
She was recruited by CNN on the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 as an entry-level desk assistant. Amanpour's first major assignment covering the fall of European communism began in 1980. She was sent in 1989 to Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, where she covered Eastern Europe at the time. She was able to advance within the company and served as a reporter for CNN's New York bureau in 1990.
Amanpour's coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1990 brought her wide notice, although CNN's coverage of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990. She returned from Bosnian war and other conflict zones later. "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about because you are an accomplice." viewers and commentators questioned her professional objectivity during Sarajevo's siege, saying that many of her reports were inaccurate and favored the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied, "There are some situations one simply cannot be impartial about." Objectivity does not imply that we should treat both directions equally. It means that each party has a voice." Amanpour grew a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars as well as reporting from conflict zones.
Amanpour, CNN's chief international reporter as well as the anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview show that aired 2009-2010, from 1992 to 2010. During Hurricane Katrina, Amanpour has reported on major problems from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, Rwanda, and the Balkans, as well as the United States. Among other topics, she has obtained exclusive interviews with world leaders from the Middle East to Europe, Africa, and beyond, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria. Pervez Musharraf, the first foreign correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after 9/11. Hillary Clinton, Nicolás Maduro, Hassan Rouhani, Emmanuel Macron, John Kerry, Angela Merkel, John Kerry, the Dalai Lama, Robert Mugabe, and Moammar Gadhafi were among others interviewed.
She has also conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece, Reza Pahlavi, Ameera al-Taweel, and actresses Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Meryl Staep.
She appeared in publications from 1996 to 2005, from 1996 to 2005, from 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt to file four to five in-depth international news reports a year as a special contributor. These publications earned her a Peabody Award in 1998 (she had previously been nominated for one in 1993). Jeff Fager, Hewitt's replacement, was not a fan of her work and had to be fired from her position.
She has had many memorable moments in her television career, one of which was in a live telephone interview with Yasser Arafat during the siege on his house in March 2002, in which Arafat gave stern answers: "Are you asking me why am I under complete siege?" You're a natural writer. You have to honor your work." When you're speaking with GM Yasser Arafat, you must be honest [sic].Be quiet!
"Sorry, she was finished by hanging up on her."Stephen Kinzer of The New York Times slammed Amanpour's coverage of the Bosnian War in general on October 9, 1994. Kinzer referred to Amanpour as a terrorist bomber in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo's Markale marketplace.
Amanpour has retaliated as a result of a scathing attack on her reporting from the war in Yugoslavia for "lack of neutrality," Amanpour wrote.
Saeed Qassemi, the former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told his and his comrades' participation as soldiers in the Bosnian War, despite him being disguised as staff of the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Amanpour had uncovered their deception just four months after, Qassemi reported in April 2019.
Amanpour announced on March 18 that she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she will anchor This Week. "I'm thrilled to be joining ABC News' amazing staff," she said. It's an honor to host This Week in the nation and international traditions of David Brinkley, and I'm looking forward to speaking on the day's most important domestic and international crises. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, admiration, and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. For the past 27 years, this has been my family's and shared venture, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have achieved." On August 1, she hosted her first broadcast on August 1, 2010.
The This Week's ratings dropped to their lowest level since 2003 after she hosted for two months. Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi Gaddafi were interviewed on February 28.
ABC announced on December 13, 2011 that Amanpour would leave ABC News' This Week as anchor and returning to CNN International, where she had previously worked for 27 years, as well as holding a reporting position at ABC News.
In a statement by ABC and CNN, Amanpour said it would launch a CNN International program in 2012, and that in a "unique arrangement," while ABC News as a global affairs anchor.
CNN International would rewrite its lineup in the spring of 2012, bringing the interview show Amanpour back to life. On-air news announced that she would return to CNN International on April 16th. The 30-minute New York-recorded show, which will be shown twice an evening, will see Piers Morgan Tonight's interview show "bumped" out of its 9:00 p.m. (Central European Time) slot to midnight (CET).
The show and staff were relocated to the CNN International Office on September 9, 2013, and it is now being produced and broadcast live from London.
"Activists" was the Islamic militants who murdered the 12 journalists at Charlie Hebdo on Monday, Amanpour made national news on Monday, referring to the Islamic militants who assassinated the 12 journalists at Charlie Hebdo. "These activists discovered their victims on this day, and journalists were journalists." On the news and on satire, this was a strong attack on expression.
On November 12, 2020, Amanpour compared the Trump administration to the Nazis and Kristallnacht, saying, "It was the Nazis' warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that resulted in genocide against a whole race," she said, and in the midst of a stack of burning books, it led to a assault on truth, knowledge, history, and truth. The Biden-Harris team promises to return to normalcy, including the truth, after four years of a modern-day assault on those same principles as Donald Trump's. The Israeli government, as well as several Jewish organisations, has called on Amanpour to apologize for this comparison. "The great tragedy of the Holocaust" is a source of bloodshed," Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich ordered an "immediate and public apology" for the "belittling of the Holocaust."
Following a last-minute request that Amanpour wear a headscarf when filming, the United Nations General Assembly's seventy-seventh session of the United States General Assembly in September 2022, Amanpour canceled a scheduled interview with President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi in New York City. Amanpour said she refused to participate in the "unprecedented and unexpected occurrence" and later reported on the situation, saying that "I have never been asked by any Iranian president, or somewhere else outside of Iran, never been asked by any Iranian president," and that "I have never been asked by any Iranian president since 1995, whether inside or outside Iran, never been asked to wear a head scarf."
In late 2013, Amanpour urged for intervention in Syria against the Assad regime, which has been fighting against Syrian opposition forces. She has appeared on many news programmes in the United Kingdom, in which she has chastised the Obama administration for its non-interventionist strategy to Syria. Michael S. Lofgren's treatment of her intervention was criticized in The Huffington Post by her.
Amanpour will permanently replace Charlie Rose on PBS after being suspended due to charges of sexual abuse, according to reports. Amanpour & Company's latest program, Amanpour & Company, premiered on PBS on September 10, 2018. Amanpour, the time of Charlie Rose's departure from PBS to the show's premiere, appeared on PBS stations as Amanpour on PBS from the time of his debut on PBS.
Christiane Amanpour & Company, a PBS daily show, has been broadcasting from Amanpour & Company in England since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Her show continues to be seen on television at numerous stations in the United States, including at least four TV stations in the greater Los Angeles area of southern California.