Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (Arabic فريد زكريا ) ( born January 20, 1964 in Bombay, India) is the editor of Time Magazine and hosted the weekly TV show Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. He lives in New York City.

Life

Zakaria comes from a Muslim Konkani family, which had settled in Bombay. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science and international relations and political philosophy taught until he editor of the internationally renowned journal Foreign Affairs was Chief. Since October 2000, he served as managing editor of Newsweek International whose cross-regional issues, reaching about 3.5 million readers worldwide. Zakaria writes regularly for Newsweek, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He was until August 2010 chief editor of Newsweek International and was a political commentator for ABC News (2002-2007). Since June 2008, he hosts a new weekly show, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. In August 2012, Zakaria was suspended by Time and CNN for a week to examine plagiarism allegations against him.

  • 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, been translated into 17 languages
  • Fareed Zakaria: The Rise of others. Siedler Verlag 2009, ISBN 3- 88680-917 -X ( Original English edition under the title of The Post- American World. WW Norton & Company 2008, ISBN 0 - 393-06235 -X)
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