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FAREED ZAKARIA has been editor of Newsweek Internatonal since October 2000. In his post at Newsweek, Zakaria oversees the magazine's overseas editions, which include English-language editions distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Newsweek also publishes editions in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic and Russian. The total audience for Newsweek International is about 3.5 million. Zakaria also writes a regular column for Newsweek, which appears occasionally in The Washington Post. In October 2002, he was hired by ABC News to serve as an analyst for "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" and appear regularly on the show's roundtable. He will also appear on other ABC shows, while continuing his Newsweek work. Zakaria was previously managing editor of Foreign Affairs, America's most influential foreign policy publication from 1993-2000 (he was 28 when he arrived at the publication as managing editor). He was named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire magazine in 1999. Prior to Foreign Affairs, he taught in Harvard University's Department of Government and in the Core Curriculum, and ran the Project on the Changing Security Environment and American National Interests. He has written on international affairs in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, IntellectualCapital.com, The National Interest, International Security, and The New Republic. He was also the wine columnist for Slate.com. Zakaria received a B.A. in History from Yale University and a Ph.D in international relations from Harvard University's Department of Government. He lives in New York City with his wife Paula and son Omar. His books:
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PRESS RELEASE FAREED ZAKARIA NAMED EDITOR OF NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL New York -- Fareed Zakaria, the managing editor of Foreign Affairs and a Newsweek contributing editor, was named editor of Newsweek International, it was announced today by Chairman and Editor-In-Chief Richard M. Smith and Editor Mark Whitaker. Based in New York, Zakaria will report to Whitaker. He will join the magazine in January following the completion of a book project. As editor of Newsweek International, Zakaria will be responsible for the content and direction of Newsweek’s overseas editions. In addition to guiding Newsweek International, Zakaria will write a regular column for Newsweek and will appear on an occasional basis in The Washington Post. In making the announcement, Smith said: "Fareed is a brilliant young writer and editor. Working with our new international editing team and our world-class foreign correspondents, he will bring an inspiring vision and heightened impact to Newsweek International and our global coverage."
Whitaker said: "I couldn't be more thrilled that Fareed is joining the ‘Flying Wallendas,’ as we like to call our top-editing team. He’s not only an exceptional writer and thinker, but a dynamic editor who will make Newsweek International stand out in the increasingly competitive international marketplace and help bring an even sharper edge to the domestic magazine’s coverage of foreign affairs." "In a world of 24-hour news, as daily newspapers have become magazines, the weekly magazine must go further, providing richer reporting and deeper analysis," Zakaria said. "Newsweek and Newsweek International are already far along the path. I hope to push the magazine in new directions while maintaining the high standards for which it is known around the world. Newsweek International is already a great magazine. I intend that it will get better." Named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire magazine in 1999, Zakaria has been the managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the most widely circulated journal on international politics and economics in the world, since 1993. He has been a contributing editor at Newsweek since 1996, where he has written columns addressing a wide range of world affairs. His first column, "Thank Goodness for a Villain" (Sept. 16, 1996), was a provocative piece discussing why America needed Saddam Hussein in order to sustain American policy in the Middle East. Prior to joining Foreign Affairs, Zakaria ran the "Project on the Changing Security Environment and American National Interests" at Harvard University, where he also taught international relations and political philosophy. A frequent lecturer and author, he has written regularly for the op-ed page of The New York Times, and frequently for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, where he also worked for a time, International Security and the Webzines Slate and Intellectual Security. He is the author of "From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role" (Princeton University Press) and coeditor of "The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World" (Basic Books). He shared an Overseas Press Club Award with a Newsweek reporting team and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Zakaria, 36, received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He lives in New York City with his wife and son. Newsweek International has a global audience of approximately 3.5 million. Newsweek International’s three English-language editions include: Atlantic (distributed throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa), Asia and Latin America. Newsweek is also the only American news magazine with a number of foreign-language editions. Under the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Ron Javers, Newsweek is published in Japanese (Newsweek Nihon Ban) and Korean (Newsweek Hankuk Pan) and also has a copublishing venture in Australia with The Bulletin With Newsweek, a weekly magazine, as well as other ventures including Itogi, a Russian-language magazine, Newsweek En Español and Newsweek In Arabic (Newsweek Bil Logha Al-Arabia). o o o o o [A New York Times profile of Fareed Zakaria] The New York Times
Photo: Fareed Zakaria is magaging editor of the policy journal Foreign Affairs. (Librado Romero/The New York Times) ON the wall of Fareed Zakaria's office hangs a great trophy of his trade: an autographed copy of George F. Kennan's historic ''X'' article, published in 1947 in Foreign Affairs, that first articulated America's policy of Soviet containment. Nearby is a signed copy of Henry A. Kissinger's ''Reflections on American Diplomacy,'' published in 1956 in Foreign Affairs, which launched the would-be Secretary of State as a public intellectual. And alongside that, in case one does not yet get the picture, is a signed copy of ''The Bent Twig'' by Isaiah Berlin, published in 1972 in Foreign Affairs, which became a prophetic treatise on the rise of nationalism in the Third World. ''I got him to sign it a month before he died,'' Mr. Zakaria said. In short, no one should ever doubt Mr. Zakaria's sense of history, or his desire to be a part of it. In 1993, at the age of 28, he became the youngest managing editor of Foreign Affairs, taking over the No. 2 spot at the nation's premier foreign policy journal. Six years later, he is spinning comfortably in the innermost orbits of America's foreign policy establishment. He has published a book on the United States' origins as a global power, is at work on another about ''democracy everywhere, past, present, future,'' and is a columnist for Newsweek. And although it is still too early for him to be flown down to Texas to advise the Presidential candidate George W. Bush -- Mr. Zakaria says he likes moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats -- it is not too early for him to know everyone who has. Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's chief foreign policy adviser, calls him ''intelligent about just about every area of the world.'' But there is an obstacle. Mr. Zakaria is still a citizen of his native India, though now in the final stages of becoming a naturalized American -- a move that he sees as inevitable but also central to his acceptance inside a campaign, and certainly a White House. And although he is following in the footsteps of two other immigrant-diplomats, Mr. Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, he does not come out of a European tradition. ''I don't think anyone ever imagined that in the next decade or so there could be a national security adviser from India,'' said Leslie H. Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations (publisher of Foreign Affairs) and a former columnist for The New York Times. ''This is in the realm of possibility.'' (Mr. Zakaria smiled, carefully, at Mr. Gelb's pronouncement. ''Les has a certain set of ambitions for me,'' he said.) MR. ZAKARIA'S traditions, like those of a lot of upper-class Indians, are in fact more Westernized than Americans might suspect. ''I found myself, at a fairly young age, intellectually more at home in the West,'' said Mr. Zakaria during a two-hour talk this week in his small office just off Park Avenue at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he said at least twice that he had no connection to the Bush campaign and seemed most worried about sounding arrogant. ''I also think I grew up in an India that's vanishing,'' he said. ''The secular, somewhat Anglicized India of the 1960's and 1970's is giving way to a much more authentic, Indian India . But it's not an India I feel that comfortable in.'' Mr. Zakaria grew up on Malabar Hill, Bombay's Bel Air, in a big house, Rylestone, where his parents held Urdu poetry readings and had plenty of space for him to play cricket out back. His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was deputy leader of the ruling Congress Party under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. His mother, Fatma Zakaria, was the Sunday editor of the The Times of India. Rylestone, built during the Raj for a British high court judge, bustled in the evenings with writers, artists and politicians. During the day, Mr. Zakaria received a classical English education at the Cathedral School, where 800 Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims ''would gather together and sort of lustily sing 'Nearer My God to Thee.' '' Mr. Zakaria went to Yale, fell in love with America and abandoned England as any kind of spiritual home. ''You can't penetrate English culture -- you can admire it,'' he said. ''Whereas in America, there's absolutely no sense of that.'' After receiving a doctorate in political science from Harvard in 1993, Mr. Zakaria was quickly hired by James Hoge, the editor of Foreign Affairs, plunging into life at the council on East 68th Street. ''People think of America as a strongly materialistic culture,'' Mr. Zakaria said. ''But it really isn't. There's an extraordinarily vital intellectual life here.'' It's not that people aren't interested in politics, he added, but ''it's a big, vast country where the stakes are lower.'' ''In India, politics can be about life and death if you're on the wrong side of an issue.'' Yesterday, predictably, CNN had him assessing Mr. Bush's foreign policy speech at the Citadel, which Mr. Zakaria praised as ''smart, hard-headed Republican internationalism'' and ''not a crazy, let's go all over the world and spread democracy and justice'' screed. Mr. Zakaria is married to a jewelry designer and has a 3-month-old baby boy. He is wine columnist for Slate, the Internet magazine, speaks and dresses elegantly, but has an American approachability and a very specific American fantasy. ''The immigrant in me,'' he said, ''wants to go off to some Northeastern dock and sail off in topsiders and a polo shirt.'' -30- |
