Fareed Zakaria

Dr. Fareed Rafiq Zakaria Ph.D. (/fəˈriːd zəˈkɑːriə/; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor-at-large of Time. He is the author of five books, three of them international bestsellers, and the co-editor of one. 2Early life Zakaria was born in Bombay, India to a Konkani Muslim family. His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic theologian. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was his father's second wife. She was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India. Zakaria attended the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bomba