Diane Rehm

Diane Rehm
Rehm at 69th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon, 2010
Birth name	Diane Aed
Born	(1936-09-21) September 21, 1936 (age 80) Washington, D.C.
Show	The Diane Rehm Show
Network	NPR
Country	United States
Spouse(s)	John Rehm (second husband; 1959–2014; his death)
Website	thedianerehmshow.org

Diane Rehm (/ˈriːm/; born Diane Aed; September 21, 1936) is a former American public radio talk show host. Her program, The Diane Rehm Show, was distributed nationally and internationally by National Public Radio. The show was produced at WAMU, which is licensed to American University in Washington, D.C.

Rehm had announced her plans to retire from hosting the show after the 2016 elections. The final program was recorded and distributed on December 23, 2016. Rehm has announced she will be hosting a weekly podcast beginning January, 2017. A new program produced by WAMU, titled 1A, will play in the vacated timeslot.

The Washington Post describes Rehm as a leading voice in the right to die debate.

Rehm was born in Washington, D.C. According to Rehm's autobiography, Finding My Voice, her father's family were Eastern Orthodox Christians from Ottoman Mersin, a city on the southern coast of Anatolia. According to Rehm, the family were Arabs, and her mother was an educated woman who was fluent in both French and Arabic. Rehm's father immigrated to America in 1911, following his older brothers. He returned to Mersin to marry her mother, but found that she and her family were living in Alexandria, Egypt. He brought her to America in 1929; family memories of how the two met vary. In a 2012 interview in The Washingtonian, she describes her father as coming from Beirut, Lebanon.