Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria (pronounced /fəˈriːd zəˈkɑriə/, is an Indian-born naturalized American journalist, author, and television host specializing in international relations. Zakaria was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to a Muslim family. His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic scholar. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India.

Zakaria attended The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann.

After participating in a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard, Zakaria became managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. In October 2000, he was named editor of Newsweek International. and writes a weekly foreign affairs column in it. He has also worked as a wine columnist for the webzine Slate, saying that wine "is the perfect gift."

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), and The Post-American World (2008); he has also co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books).

Zakaria hosted the weekly TV news show, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, for PBS, and, from 2002 to 2007 was a news analyst with ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. His new weekly show, Fareed Zakaria GPS ("GPS" meaning "Global Public Square") premiered on CNN in June 2008.

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