Fareed Zakaria
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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an American journalist, political scientist, and author.
He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post.
He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large.
Early life
Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India, to a Konkani Muslim family. Rafiq Zakaria (1920-2005), a politician who served in the Indian National Congress and an Islamic theologian, was his father. Fatima Zakaria (1936–2021), his father's second wife, was the editor of the Sunday Times of India for a time. She died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Mumbai, Zakaria attended the Cathedral and John Connon School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1986, where he was president of the Yale Political Union, editor in chief of the Yale Social Monthly, a member of the Scroll and Key society, and a member of the Party of the Right. Robert Keohane, a former Harvard University professor, earned a doctorate in government under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann's guidance, as well as international relations theorist Robert Keohane.
Personal life
Zakaria is a naturalized American citizen. Zakaria married Paula Throckmorton, a jewelry designer, in 1997. The couple have three children. His wife filed for divorce in July 2018.
He now lives in New York City's Upper West Side. Zakaria nurtured a passion for cooking as a graduate student, and chefs Jacques Pépin and Julia Childs are credited with his increased interest in food. Zakaria is a self-described secular and nonpracticing Muslim. "My faith convictions are tangled," he said, slipping somewhere between deism and agnosticism. I am essentially secular in my outlook.' His ex-wife is a Christian, and his three children have not been raised as Muslims.
Career
After directing a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard, Zakaria became the managing editor of Foreign Affairs in 1992, at the age of 28. Under his guidance, the magazine was redesigned to be published once every two months, moving away from a quarterly schedule. He served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where he taught a seminar on international relations. In October 2000, he was named editor of Newsweek International, and became a weekly columnist for Newsweek. In August 2010 he moved to Time to serve as editor at-large and columnist. He writes a weekly column for The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for the Atlantic Media group, which includes The Atlantic Monthly.
He has published on a variety of subjects for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic. For a brief period, he was a wine columnist for the web magazine Slate, with the pseudonym of George Saintsbury, after the English writer.
Zakaria is the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton, 1998), The Future of Freedom (Norton, 2003), The Post-American World (2008), and In Defense of a Liberal Education (Norton, 2015). He co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books) with James F. Hoge Jr. His last three books have both been New York Times bestsellers and The Future of Freedom and The Post American World have both been translated into more than 25 languages. In 2011 an updated and expanded edition of The Post-American World ("Release 2.0") was published.
Zakaria was a news analyst with ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos (2002–2007) where he was a member of the Sunday morning roundtable. He hosted the weekly TV news show, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS (2005–08). His weekly show, Fareed Zakaria GPS (Global Public Square), premiered on CNN in June 2008. It airs twice weekly in the United States and four times weekly on CNN International, reaching over 200 million homes. It celebrated its 10th anniversary on 5 June 2018, as announced on the weekly foreign affairs show on CNN.
In 2013, he became one of the producers for the HBO series Vice, for which he serves as a consultant.
Zakaria, a member of the Berggruen Institute, additionally features as an interlocutor for the annual Berggruen Prize.