Fareed Zakaria
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Zakaria in 2012
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| Born |
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria January 20, 1964 India |
| Alma mater |
Yale University (B.A.) Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) |
Fareed Zakaria GPS, host (2008–present) Time magazine, contributing editor (2010–2014) Newsweek International, editor (2000–2010) Foreign Exchange, host (2005–2007) Foreign Affairs, former managing editor |
| Title | Government of India awarded Padma Bhushan award to Zakaria in January 2010 for his contribution to journalism |
| Spouse(s) | Paula Throckmorton Zakaria |
| Children | Omar, Lila, Sofia |
| Relatives | Father Rafiq Zakaria, Mother Fatima Zakaria, Cousins Asif Zakaria and Arif Zakaria |
| Website | www |
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (/fəˈriːd zəˈkɑːriə/; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time. He is the author of five books, three of them international bestsellers, and the co-editor of one.
Zakaria was born in India to a Konkani Muslim family. His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic theologian. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was his father's second wife. She was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India.
Zakaria attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay. 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 Political Monthly, a member of the Scroll and Key society, and a member of the Party of the Right. He later gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Government from Harvard University in 1993, where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann, as well as international relations theorist Robert Keohane.
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