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Born | Fareed Rafiq Zakaria 20 January 1964 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Education | Yale University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Occupations | |
Employer | CNN |
Notable credit(s) | Fareed Zakaria GPS, host (2008–present) Time, contributing editor (2010–2014) Newsweek International, editor (2000–2010) Foreign Exchange, host (2005–2007) Foreign Affairs, former managing editor |
Spouse |
Paula Throckmorton
(m. 1997; div. 2018) |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | Rafiq Zakaria (father) Fatima Zakaria (mother) |
Relatives | Arif Zakaria (cousin) Asif Zakaria (cousin) |
Awards | Padma Bhushan (2010)[1] |
Website | Official website |
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (/fəˈriːd zəˈkɑːriə/; born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post.[2] He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.[3]
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Our speaker this afternoon is a celebrated thought leader on international affairs named by Foreign Policy as one of the top one hundred global thinkers perhaps most visible as the host of CNN's flagship international affairs program a role he's held since 2008 he's also editor-at-large at Time Magazine, a Washington Post columnist and a New York Times best-selling author. He was introduced as Time Editor at Large in 2010 after a decade as editor of Newsweek International overseeing all the magazines' editions abroad. Before this, he was hired at the age of twenty eight as the managing editor of Foreign Affairs He's the author of numerous books, articles and columns and the recipient of equally numerous honors including a National Magazine Award in 2001 for his influential Newsweek cover story, "Why They Hate Us". Born in Mumbai our speaker did venture to Yale to receive his bachelor's degree but continued on to harvard Thus perhaps dashing poor Eli's hopes as we all just sang a moment ago starting with Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffman to earn a Ph.D in political science. He's a respected scholar, a talented journalist, and one of our foremost alumni voices on global affairs. Please join me in welcoming Fareed Zakaria. thank you so much President Faust, members of the Corporation, members of the Board of Overseers, ladies and gentlemen Above all, students, graduating students, thank you so much for asking me to do this. I have to say to the students here you are already way ahead of me you see I actually have never made my commencement either from college or from my Ph.D. program i did as you heard there was a small college south of here in the little town called New Haven uh... and I perhaps got it wrong and celebrated a little bit too much the night before commencement uh... so the honest truth is I slept through my college commencement when I finally made it to harvard I got a job before commencement and had to be working in New York and couldn't take the day off. I got my degree in the mail. Some 19 years later I'm finally honored to receive in person a Harvard degree. Thank you. Harvard was for me a dazzling revelation contrary to the conventional wisdom on this campus it is possible to get a fine education at Yale, which i did but the great graduate programs of Harvard in their scope, in their scale, in their worldliness and ambition were just an electric experience and i soaked it in Now, to get a Ph.D. involves many many hours of grueling work it also involves many hours of goofing off acquiring hobbies and interests and uh... exploiting the great resources of this university i mean the libraries and the cafes and I did all of that and gained from it immeasurably. I learned from faculty, from students, from visitors but what I remember most was that Harvard is the place that I learned to think and owe this university as a result a deep debt of gratitude something I think all of you share with me and something the development office will remind you all from time to time I've always been wary of making commencement speeches. I don't think of myself as old enough to really have any wisdom to impart, but there's nothing like having children to remind you of how old you are. My nine-year-old daughter is here with me now uh... or to remind you about deeply uncool you are so I'm gonna take on this task with some trepidation. The best commencement speech I ever heard, or heard of was by Art Buchwald, the humorist. His address was short, was brief. He simply said ladies and gentlemen remember we are leaving you a perfect world don't screw it up. Now you are not likely to hear that message much these days. Instead you're likely to hear that we are living in green economic times the graduates are going to be told that they are graduating into the slowest, economic recovery since World War Two and it's not just economic worries ever since nine eleven we have been worried about terrorism, fearful of the dangers of new attacks, that have in many ways altered our daily lives. Then there are larger concerns you hear about the earth is getting hotter, we're running out of water, a billion people are trapped in terrible poverty. So I want to sketch out for you perhaps with a little bit of historical perspective the world as I see it. The world we live in his first of all at peace profoundly so the richest countries of the world are not in major geopolitical, geomilitary competition with one another no arms races, no proxy races, no wars, no cold wars among the richest countries of the world. You would have to go back hundreds of years to find an equivalent period of political stability. I know that you see a bomb going off in Afghanistan or hear of a terror plot in New York and worry about the safety and security of our times. But here is the data: the number of people who have died as a result of war, civil war, and yes, terrorism, is down fifty percent this decade from the 1990s it is down seventy five percent from the preceding five decades. It is down of course the ninety nine percent from the decade before that which was World War Two. Steven Pinker argues that we are living in the most peaceful times in human history. And he should know because he is a Harvard professor. The political stability that we've experienced has allowed the creation of a single global economy that has allowed countries from all over the world to participate and flourish. In 1980 the number of countries that were growing up four percent a year, with robust growth was about sixteen. By 2007 that number had doubled and even after the financial crisis that number stands today at about eighty. Countries around the world are thriving and flourishing in a way that was previously unimaginable. Even in the current decade with all its slow growth the global economy as a whole would grow ten to twenty percent faster than it did last decade sixty-percent faster than it did two decades ago and five times as fast as it did three decades ago. The result is that the united nations estimates in the last fifty years poverty has been reduced more than in the preceding five hundred years. Most of that reduction has taken place in the last twenty. The average Chinese person is today ten times richer that he or she was fifty years ago with twenty five years more of life expectancy. Life expectancy has risen across the world dramatically. we gain five hours of life expectancy everyday. Imagine that, without even exercising! a court of all the babies born in the developed world this year will live to be a hundred. All this is, of course, because of rising standards of living of hygiene and medicine. Atul Gawande, another Harvard professor who was also a practicing surgeon, who also writes for the New Yorker magazine tells of a nineteenth century operation perhaps not so one common In this case, the surgeon was trying to amputate the patient's leg. He succeeded. He also, however, amputated his assistant's hand. The two patients, I suppose one would call them died of sepsis. An onlooker died of shock. It is the only known medical procedure to have a three hundred percent fatality. We've come a long way. To understand the astonishing age of progress just look at the cell phones you have in your pockets. and yes, I know many of you don't have them in your pockets -- they are already out, and you are looking at them right now. That cell phone has more computing power than the Apollo space capsule that went to the moon. That capsule couldn't even tweet. So imagine the opportunities that lie ahead. Moore's Law, which says that computing power will double every eighteen months while costs have may be petering out in the realm of information technology. But there are other arenas in which it is accelerating. The human genome is being sequenced at a pace faster than Moore's Law. A third industrial revolution involving material science and the customization of manufacturing is yet in its infancy. And all of these fields are beginning to intersect and produce new opportunities in ways that we can't even imagine. The good news goes on. Look at the number of graduates globally from colleges. That number has risen four-fold in the last forty years for men. It has risen sevenfold for women. And if you're wondering whether or not that age old question how women smarter than men has been answered, the evidence is now overwhelming. The answer is yes. My favorite example of this is that there was a study done That over the last twenty five years female representatives, members of the House of Representatives have had managed to get forty nine million dollars more in federal grant money than their male counterparts. So even at pork barrel spending it turns out women are better than men. And so i look forward from the villages in Africa to the board rooms of America To the increasing participation of women which is going to enrich and ennoble our world. Now you might listen to all this and say You might listen to all this and say, well, this is all a very good for the world but what does it mean for America? Well, a world at peace brought prosperity, the rise of the rest is going to be particularly good for the United States because let me remind you this is the country with the largest and most dynamic economy in the world that hosts hundreds of the world's greatest companies that dominates the age of technology It has almost all of the world's great universities There is in China and India no Harvard and there will not be for decades, perhaps ever. the United States is also a vital society It is the only country in the industrialized world that is demographically vibrant. We add three million people to this country every year. That is itself a powerful life force, and it is made stronger by the fact that so many of these people are immigrants. They... I should say, we come to this country with aspirations, with drive, with determination and we develop a fierce love of this country. America in 2050 will have a better demographic profile than China. So this country has its problems, but i would rather have America's problems than most any other countries in the world. When I tell you that we're living in an astonishing age of progress, I am not urging complacency, far from it. We have been through a century of extraordinary troubles: world wars depressions cold wars and dozens of other smaller challenges but each of those challenges has been matched by a response. Human action and human achievement have managed to take on and best terrible problems. We forget our successes in 2009 the H1N1 virus broke out in Mexico. Now, if you look back at the trajectory of these kinds of viruses it's quite conceivable that this one would have spread like the asian flu of 1957 or 1968 which cost four million lives. But this time, the Mexican health authorities identified the problem early, shared the information with the World Health Organization learned best practices tracked down where the outbreak took place, quarantined people, vaccinated others. The country went on a full-scale alert in a very Catholic country it was not allowed to go to church for three Sundays. Perhaps more importantly you couldn't go to a soccer game for three weeks. But the result was that the virus was contained to the point where three months later people asked what was the fuss and wondered whether we had overreacted. We hadn't overreacted. We had reacted. We have responded. And we had dealt with the problem. There are other examples. In the twelve months following the economic peak in 2008 industrial production worldwide fell as much as it did in the first year of the great depression. Equity prices and global trade actually fell more. Yet this time no great depression followed. Why? Because of the coordinated actions of governments around the world. 9/11 did not usher in an age of terrorism with Al Qaeda going from strength to strength. Why? Because countries cooperated in fighting them and other terrorists around the world with considerable success. When we come together when we put aside our petty differences when we cooperate the results are astounding. So when we look at all these problems we face economic crises, terrorism, climate change, resource scarcity- keep in mind that these are real problems but that the human reaction and response to them will be real. you can easily map out the big problem but it's much more difficult to map out the thousands of individual actions that governments, firms, organizations, researchers, scientists, and ordinary people will take that will collectively constitute the solution. In a sense I'm betting on the graduates of this great university. I believe that your actions will have consequences. your efforts will make a difference. And according to the graduates I know of this kind of event, I'm supposed to provide some advice. So, should you go into nanotechnology or bioengineering and the answer is that I haven't a clue. I honestly don't know what the great trends of the future or industries of the future will be. But I do know one thing: that human beings will probably continue to reward those talents of heart and mind that they have always rewarded for thousands of years. Intelligence, hard work, discipline, courage, perhaps above all love and faith these are the things that at the end of the day make for a great life; one that is rewarded by the outside world. An equally importantly a good life one that is rewarded by only those you know best. These are the virtues that people honor. These are the virtues that people have built statues for five thousand years and to which they will be statues for the next five thousand years... well nobody does statues anymore. They build weird, metal, modernist sculptures with strange doodads hanging off them but you get my general point. Trust yourself. You know what kind of life you should live. You don't need an ethics course to tell you what not to do. Trust in your instincts and you will build a great life you will build a good life and you will change the world. You know, I said at my age that I don't have written much specific wisdom to impart I have one final piece of advice for the graduates and it is a piece of advice that is gained from experience not books. Trust me about this. You will never understand how much your parents love you until you have children of your own. Once you have children of your own, once you have children of your own, all that strange behavior- the stalking, the worrying- it all makes sense. But do me a favor don't wait so long. My mother lives eight thousand miles away and I think about this every day. Don't wait so long. Get up today of all days and hug your parents and tell them you love them. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, and to the graduates of Harvard, godspeed.
Early life and education
Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India, to a Konkani Muslim family.[4][5] His father, Rafiq Zakaria (1920–2005), was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and a scholar of Islam. His mother, Fatima Zakaria (1936–2021), his father's second wife, was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India. She died during the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
Zakaria attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1986,[3] 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.[7] As a student at Yale University in the mid-1980s, Zakaria opposed anti-apartheid divestment and argued that Yale should not divest from its holdings in South Africa.[8] He later gained a PhD in government from Harvard University in 1993,[3] where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann, as well as international relations theorist Robert Keohane.[7]
Career
After directing a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard, Zakaria became the managing editor of Foreign Affairs in 1992, at the age of 28. Under his guidance, the magazine was redesigned to be published once every two months, moving away from a quarterly schedule. He served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where he taught a seminar on international relations. In October 2000, he was named editor of Newsweek International,[3] and became a weekly columnist for Newsweek. In August 2010, he moved to Time to serve as editor at-large and columnist.[9] He writes a weekly column for The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for the Atlantic Media group, which includes The Atlantic Monthly.
He has published on a variety of subjects for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic. For a brief period, he was a wine columnist for the web magazine Slate, with the pseudonym of George Saintsbury, after the English writer.[10][11][12]
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), The Post-American World (2008), and In Defense of a Liberal Education (Norton, 2015). He co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books) with James F. Hoge Jr. His last three books have been New York Times bestsellers and The Future of Freedom and The Post American World have both been translated into more than 25 languages. In 2011 an updated and expanded edition of The Post-American World ("Release 2.0") was published.
Zakaria was a news analyst with ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos (2002–2007) where he was a member of the Sunday morning roundtable. He hosted the weekly TV news show, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS (2005–08). His weekly show, Fareed Zakaria GPS (Global Public Square), premiered on CNN in June 2008.[3] It airs twice weekly in the United States and four times weekly on CNN International, reaching over 200 million homes. It celebrated its 10th anniversary on 5 June 2018, as announced on the weekly foreign affairs show on CNN.
In 2013, he became one of the producers for the HBO series Vice, for which he serves as a consultant.
Zakaria, a member of the Berggruen Institute, additionally features as an interlocutor for the annual Berggruen Prize.[13][14][15]
Political views
Zakaria self-identifies as a "centrist",[16] though he has been described variously as a political liberal,[17] a conservative,[18] a moderate,[19] or a radical centrist.[20] George Stephanopoulos said of him in 2003, "He's so well versed in politics, and he can't be pigeonholed. I can't be sure whenever I turn to him where he's going to be coming from or what he's going to say."[18] In February 2008, Zakaria wrote that "Conservatism grew powerful in the 1970s and 1980s because it proposed solutions appropriate to the problems of the age", adding that "a new world requires new thinking".[21] He supported Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign and also for president. In January 2009, Forbes referred to Zakaria as one of the 25 most influential liberals in the American media.[17] Zakaria has stated that he tries not to be devoted to any type of ideology, saying "I feel that's part of my job... which is not to pick sides but to explain what I think is happening on the ground. I can't say, 'This is my team and I'm going to root for them no matter what they do.'"[16]
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Zakaria "may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West," wrote David Shribman in The Boston Globe.[22] In 2003, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told New York Magazine that Zakaria "has a first-class mind and likes to say things that run against conventional wisdom."[18] However, in 2011, the editors of The New Republic included him in a list of "over-rated thinkers" and commented, "There's something suspicious about a thinker always so perfectly in tune with the moment."[23]
Zakaria's books include The Future of Freedom and The Post-American World. The Future of Freedom argues that what is defined as democracy in the Western world is actually "liberal democracy", a combination of constitutional liberalism and participatory politics. Zakaria points out that protection of liberty and the rule of law actually preceded popular elections by centuries in Western Europe, and that when countries only adopt elections without the protection of liberty, they create "illiberal democracy". The Post-American World, published in 2008 before the financial crisis, argued that the most important trend of modern times is the "rise of the rest," the economic emergence of China, India, Brazil, and other countries.[24]
From 2006, Zakaria has also criticized what he views as "fear-based" American policies employed not only in combating terrorism, but also in enforcing immigration and drug smuggling laws, and has argued in favor of decriminalization of drugs and citizenship for presently illegal immigrants to the United States of all backgrounds.[25][26][27]
Referring to his views on Iran, Leon Wieseltier described Zakaria in 2010 as a "consummate spokesman for the shibboleths of the [Obama] White House and for the smooth new worldliness, the at-the-highest-levels impatience with democracy and human rights as central objectives of our foreign policy, that now characterize advanced liberal thinking about America's role in the world."[28]
Before the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Zakaria endorsed Barack Obama on his CNN program.[29] In May 2011 The New York Times reported that President Obama has "sounded out prominent journalists like Fareed Zakaria ... and Thomas L. Friedman" concerning Middle East issues.[30]
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After the 9/11 attacks, in a Newsweek cover essay, "Why They Hate Us," Zakaria argued that Islamic extremism was not fundamentally rooted in Islam, nor could it be claimed a reaction to American foreign policy. He located the problem in the political-social-economic stagnation of Arab societies, which then bred an extreme, religious opposition. He portrayed Osama bin Laden as one in a long line of extremists who used religion to justify mass murder. Zakaria argued for an intergenerational effort to create more open and dynamic societies in Arab countries, and thereby helping Islam enter the modern world.[31]
Zakaria initially supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[18] He said at the time, "The place is so dysfunctional ... any stirring of the pot is good. America's involvement in the region is for the good."[18] He argued for a United Nations–sanctioned operation with a much larger force—approximately 400,000 troops—than was actually employed by the administration of President George W. Bush. However, he soon became a critic. In addition to objecting to the war plan, he frequently criticized the way the Bush administration was running the occupation of Iraq.[32] He argued against the disbanding of the army and bureaucracy yet supported the de-Baathification programs.[33] He continued to argue that a functioning democracy in Iraq would be a powerful new model for Arab politics but suggested that an honest accounting would have to say that the costs of the invasion had been much higher than the benefits. He opposed the Iraq surge in March 2007, writing that it would work militarily but not politically, still leaving Iraq divided among its three communities. Instead, he advocated that Washington push hard for a political settlement between the Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, and Kurds, and begin a reduction in forces to only 60,000 troops.[32] He later wrote that the surge "succeeded" militarily but that it did not produce a political compact and that Iraq remained divided along sectarian lines, undermining its unity, democracy, and legacy.[34][35]
Zakaria supported the April 2017 U.S. missile strike against a Syrian government–controlled airbase. Zakaria praised President Trump's strike and said it was the moment "[he] became president of the United States."[36]
In July 2020, Zakaria was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted."[37]
In March 2021, Zakaria criticized the size of the U.S. military budget, saying that "The United States’ F-35 fighter jet program, bedeviled by cost overruns and technical problems, will ultimately cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion. China will spend a comparable amount of money on its Belt and Road Initiative...Which is money better spent?".[38]
In July 2022, Zakaria wrote a Washington Post article titled "Forget pronouns. Democrats need to become the party of building things", in which he said "There is plenty of evidence that the Democratic Party has moved left, that it is out of sync with Americans on many of these cultural issues, and that it needs to correct course" and that "This is not a perception problem. It is a reality problem. Democrats need to once more become the party that gets stuff done, builds things and makes government work for people. That’s a lot more important to most Americans than using the right pronouns".[39]
Honors and awards
Zakaria has been nominated five times for the National Magazine Award, and won it once, for his columns and commentary.[citation needed] His show has won a Peabody Award[40] and been nominated for several Emmys. He was conferred India Abroad Person of the Year 2008 award on 20 March 2009, in New York.[41] Filmmaker Mira Nair, who won the award for year 2007, honored her successor.
He has received honorary degrees from Harvard University, Brown University, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Miami, Oberlin College, Bates College, and the University of Oklahoma among others.[42] He was the 2000 Annual Orator of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
In January 2010, Zakaria was given the Padma Bhushan award by the Indian government for his contribution to the field of journalism.[43]
He has served on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia University's International House, City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership,[44] among others.[citation needed] He was a trustee of Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University[45] and the Trilateral Commission.[citation needed]
In 2020, Zakaria was awarded the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism.[46]
Controversies
Role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
In his 2006 book State of Denial, journalist Bob Woodward of The Washington Post described a 29 November 2001 meeting of Middle East analysts, including Zakaria, that was convened at the request of the then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. According to a story in The New York Times on Woodward's book, the Wolfowitz meeting ultimately produced a report for President George W. Bush that supported the subsequent invasion of Iraq. Zakaria, however, later told The New York Times that he had briefly attended what he thought was "a brainstorming session".[47] He was not told that a report would be prepared for the President, and in fact, the report did not have his name on it. The Times issued a correction.[48]
Debate on the Park51 Islamic Center
In 2010, in protest at the Anti-Defamation League's opposition to the building of the Park51 mosque and Islamic cultural center two blocks from the World Trade Center site, Zakaria returned the Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize awarded to him by the ADL in 2005. He declared that the ADL's opposition to the mosque meant that he could not "in good conscience keep [the award] anymore". In support of his decision, he stated that the larger issue in the controversy is freedom of religion in the United States, even while acknowledging that he is not a religious person. He also wrote that a "moderate, mainstream version of Islam" is essential to winning the war on terror, and that moves like the ADL's make it harder for such a moderate version of Islam to emerge and thrive.[49][50][51] On 8 August 2010, edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS, Zakaria addressed the issue, stating that in returning his award, he had hoped that the ADL would reconsider their stance.[52]
Plagiarism allegations
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Zakaria was suspended for a week in August 2012 while Time and CNN investigated an allegation of plagiarism[53] involving a 20 August column on gun control with similarities to a New Yorker article by Jill Lepore. In a statement Zakaria apologized, saying that he had made "a terrible mistake."[54][55][56] Six days later, after a review of his research notes and years of prior commentary, Time and CNN reinstated Zakaria. Time described the incident as "isolated" and "unintentional"; and CNN "... found nothing that merited continuing the suspension...."[57][58][59]
The controversy was reignited in September 2014, when Esquire and The Week magazines reported on allegations made in pseudonymous blogs.[60][61][62] Newsweek added a blanket warning to its archive of articles penned by Zakaria, and after an investigation of his several hundred columns for the magazine, found improper citation in seven.[63][64] Similarly, after allegations surfaced on Twitter regarding the originality of one of Zakaria's columns for Slate, the online magazine appended a notice to the article indicating that, "This piece does not meet Slate's editorial standards, having failed to properly attribute quotations and information...".[65] However, Slate Editor-in-Chief Jacob Weisberg, who had, months before, exchanged barbs with one of the aforementioned anonymous bloggers on Twitter in defense of Zakaria,[66] maintained his original position that what Zakaria did was not plagiarism.[67]
Corrections to selected Zakaria columns were also issued by The Washington Post, which had responded to the initial allegations by telling the Poynter media industry news site that it would investigate.[68] Later on the same day, 10 November, the Post said that it had found "problematic" sourcing in five Zakaria columns, "and will likely note the lack of attribution in archived editions of the articles."[69] However, editors at The Washington Post and Newsweek denied that Zakaria's errors constituted plagiarism.[67]
Personal life
Zakaria is a naturalized citizen of the United States.[70] In 1997, Zakaria married Paula Throckmorton, a jewelry designer. The couple have three children. In July 2018, his wife filed for divorce.[71]
He lives on the Upper West Side in New York City.[72] As a graduate student, Zakaria fostered a love for cooking and credits chefs Jacques Pépin and Julia Child with his greater interest in food.[72][12] Zakaria is a self-described secular and nonpracticing Muslim. He added: "My views on faith are complicated—somewhere between deism and agnosticism. I am completely secular in my outlook." His ex-wife is a Christian and his three children have not been raised as Muslims.[73][74]
Bibliography
- The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs, edited by James F. Hoge and Fareed Zakaria, (Basic Books; 1997) ISBN 0-465-00170-X
- From Wealth to Power: The Unusual origins of America's World Role, Fareed Zakaria, (Princeton University Press; 1998) ISBN 0-691-04496-1
- The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Fareed Zakaria, (W.W. Norton & Company; 2003) ISBN 0-393-04764-4
- The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria, (W.W. Norton & Company; 2008) ISBN 0-393-06235-X
- The Post-American World, Release 2.0, Fareed Zakaria, (W.W. Norton & Company; 2011) ISBN 0-393-08180-X
- In Defense of a Liberal Education, Fareed Zakaria, (W.W. Norton & Company; 2015) ISBN 978-0-393-24768-8
- Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, Fareed Zakaria, (W.W. Norton & Company; 2020) ISBN 978-0-393-54213-4
- Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, Fareed Zakaria, (W. W. Norton & Company; 2024) ISBN 978-0-393-23923-2
See also
- Indians in the New York City metropolitan region
- List of Yale University people
- List of Harvard University people
- New Yorkers in journalism
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- FareedZakaria.com Official site
- Global Public Square (GPS) at CNN
- Column archive Archived 27 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine at The Daily Star
- Column archive (through 2010) Archived 15 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine at Newsweek
- Fareed Zakaria at IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Fareed Zakaria on the Muck Rack journalist listing site