A future Secretary of State? Fact, fiction or fantasy?
Although he doesn't discount it totally, Fareed Zakaria, is being touted by two ladies on the net as a future Secretary of State and the first Muslim to hold the job. Who is this Omar Sharif lookalike who speaks like Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, to quote the impressible Tina Brown (she put the cleavage back in Cosmo) and Marion Maneker writing in NewYorkMetro.com. This is what Newsweek - his principal employer - has to say about him:
Fareed Zakaria was named editor of Newsweek International in October 2000. The magazine reaches an audience of 3.5 million worldwide. He also writes a regular column for Newsweek, which also appears in Newsweek International and often The Washington Post. He is a regular member of the roundtable of ABC News’ "This Week with George Stephanapoulos" as well as an analyst for ABC News.
Zakaria came to the magazine from Foreign Affairs, the widely circulated journal of international politics and economics, where he was managing editor. Prior to joining Foreign Affairs, Zakaria ran a major research project on American foreign policy at Harvard University, where he taught international relations and political philosophy. He has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the webzine Slate. He is the author of "From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role" (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into several languages, and co-editor of "The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World" (Basic Books). His new book, The Future of Freedom, will be published in the spring of 2003 by W.W. Norton.
Zakaria has shared two Overseas Press Club Awards with Newsweek reporting teams and has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. He won the Deadline Club award for his columns and several honors for his October 2001 Newsweek cover story, "Why They Hate Us." He has received the South Asian Journalists’ Association’s highest honor, the Leadership Award. In 1999, he was named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire Magazine. He has appeared on most major television news programs and has addressed audiences ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos, to the State Department, to universities in America and abroad.
He received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He lives in New York City with his wife, son and daughter.
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