Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indo-American Journalist and the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS a show which airs four times a week in CNN, a book author, who also writes a weekly column for the Washington post. He was born on January 20, 1964 in Mumbai, India in a Konkani Muslim family to father Rafiq Zakaria who was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and Islamic Theologian. His mother Fatima Zakaria was the editor of Sunday Times of India, she was the second wife of his father, so journalism was in his gene. He has written five books and among the five three are the international best sellers.
Physical Appearance and bio
Running in the 54th year of his life, he stands tall with 5 feet 8 inch height, a fit, robust body and a perfect posture reflecting his personality. He has a slightly brown complexion which highlights his Indian roots, with his curly hair and smiling face he never fails to fascinate anybody towards him. Modesty, humbleness is nearly synonymous with him; his politeness reflects his inner goodness.
Growth in Journalism and involvement in social media
After completing his high school from Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai for graduation he went to the Yale University where he became the President of the Yale Political Union and the editor in chief of Yale Political Monthly. After that, he joined Harvard University and gained doctor of philosophy degree in government in 1993. He also became director of a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard; he also remained the managing editor of Foreign Affairs during that time. At Colombia University he became an adjunct professor and ran a seminar on international relations, then after he became the editor and columnist of Newsweek International in 2000. In August 2010 he worked for Time being its columnist and editor at-large, now he serves The Washington Post writing weekly column for it and also works as the editor for the Atlantic Media Group which including The Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorkers and The New Republic. The books he has written are The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role, The Future of Freedom, The Post-American World and In Defense of Liberal Education. In 2013 he co-produced the HBO series vice and also worked as a consultant in the series. The height of his achievements to be included in the bio data is including day per day. His bio was such an amazing one with the series of his growth in every stage of his life and his wiki is also worth researching. Zakaria is very much active in social handles; he keeps on sharing about his show that’s why he has got a large number of responses through people loving him. He has got a spectacular wiki with 872K followers on Twitter and 594K likes on his face book account.
Affairs, Marital Status and family
Zakaria was married to a jewelry designer Paula Throckmorton Zakaria since 1997, nothing is known about their pre-marital affairs. The couple now has a son Omar, daughters Lila and Sofia; they all live a happy and prosperous life. He being a true family man, a cool dad and a perfect husband gives priorities to his family life along with his professional life and takes both of them side-by-side. There are no any rumors or controversies about his extramarital affairs or anything else.
Net worth- how rich is he?
Both he and his wife are so devoted towards their work that of course both of them would make a handsome amount of money to make their life a qualitative one and yes his net worth is $ 4 million. Seeing his dedication and professionalism we can say more happiness and riches are coming on his hands to make his life better and prosperous.
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