Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria ( Hindi फरीद ज़कारिया ; born January 20, 1964 in Bombay , India ) is an Indian-American journalist. He is the editor of Time Magazine and hosts the weekly TV show Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN .
Life
Zakaria comes from a Muslim Konkani family who settled in Bombay. He received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University and taught international relations and political philosophy until he became the chief editor of the internationally renowned journal Foreign Affairs . From October 2000 to August 2010 he was editor-in-chief of Newsweek International and was responsible for its national editions and thus reached around 3.5 million readers worldwide. In addition to his work at Newsweek , he worked from 2002 to 2007 as a political commentator for the news channel ABC News . Since June 2008 he has hosted the weekly program Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN . In August 2012, Zakaria was suspended for a week by Time and CNN to investigate allegations of plagiarism against him. Zakaria writes regularly for Newsweek , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker .
Zakaria lives in New York City with his wife, jewelry designer Paula Throckmorton Zakaria, and their three children .
Books
- James F. Hoge, Fareed Zakaria (Ed.): The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World. Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs . Basic Books 1997, ISBN 0-465-00170-X
- Fareed Zakaria: From Wealth to Power . Princeton University Press 1998, ISBN 0-691-04496-1
- Fareed Zakaria: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad . WW Norton & Company 2003, ISBN 0-393-04764-4 , already translated into 17 languages
- German translation by Torsten Waack: The end of freedom? Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch 2005, ISBN 3-89981-044-9
- Fareed Zakaria: The Rise of Others . Siedler Verlag 2009, ISBN 3-88680-917-X (English original edition entitled The Post-American World . WW Norton & Company 2008, ISBN 0-393-06235-X )
Web links
- Literature by and about Fareed Zakaria in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fareed Zakaria in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Andreas Mink: "The Republicans are fighting with political nuclear weapons". The former head of Newsweek Fareed Zakaria on the crisis in the US. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 7, 2011, accessed August 8, 2011 (interview with Fareed Zakaria on the budget crisis in the United States ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Newsweek Notable Moves to a Rival. The New York Times, August 19, 2010, accessed September 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Fareed Zakaria, a prolific writer, stumbles upon plagiarism. Der Standard, August 13, 2012, accessed August 5, 2015 .
- ^ Fareed Zakaria's website . Archived from the original on August 25, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zakaria, Fareed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zakaria, Fareed Rafiq (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-American journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bombay |