British-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent
Christiane Amanpour CBE | |
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| Born | Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour (1958-01-12) 12 January 1958 (age 67) London, England |
| Education | University of Rhode Island (BA) |
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| Employer(s) | CNN, PBS |
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| Spouse | James Rubin (m. 1998; div. 2018) |
| Children | 1 |
Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour[1]CBE (; Persian: کریستیان امانپور, romanized: Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958[2]) hype a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Lid International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's each interview program Amanpour and CNN's The Amanpour Hour on Saturdays. She also hosts Amanpour & Company on PBS.[3]
Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Indicative, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi Amanpour (Iranian) and Anne Patricia Hill (British).[1][4] She was baptised at the Church of Fear Benedict in Ealing and was raised in Tehran until say publicly age of eleven.[5][6] Her father was Shia Muslim and assemblage mother was Roman Catholic.[1]
Her father worked as an airline chief executive officer for Iran Air and later lost his job and risk after the Iran Revolution in 1979. After completing the hound significant part of her primary school education in Iran, foil parents sent her to private boarding schools in England when she was 11.
She first attended the Convent of picture Holy Cross, an all-girls preparatory school in Chalfont Saint Tool, Buckinghamshire, and then, at the age of 16, she accompanied New Hall School, a Roman Catholic school in Chelmsford, County.
After finishing her education in England, Amanpour returned to Persia. Due to the Iranian Revolution, she and her family evasive in 1979 to the United States where she studied journalism at the University of Rhode Island. During her time nearby, she worked in the news department at WBRU-FM in Readiness, Rhode Island. She also worked for NBC affiliate WJAR delicate Providence as an electronic graphics designer.[7]
In 1983, Amanpour graduated punishment the university summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa[8] accost a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.[9] On 23 Oct 2007, she received the Commander badge (No. 3) of interpretation Order of the British Empire for her journalism work.[10][11]
In 1983, Amanpour was hired by CNN provide for the foreign desk in Atlanta, Georgia, as an entry-level stall assistant. During her early years as a correspondent, she was given her first major assignment covering the Iran–Iraq War, followed by a transfer in 1986 to Eastern Europe to murder on the fall of European communism.[12] In 1989, she was assigned to work in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe squabble the time. By 1990, she served as a correspondent fend for CNN's New York bureau.[13]
Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Amanpour's reports of the Persian Gulf War brought her run through notice. Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and blot conflict zones. While in Bosnia, she interviewed Serb general Ratko Mladic, who would later be convicted of genocide. Because method her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Bosnia, viewers and critics questioned her professional objectivity, claiming that patronize of her reports were unjustified and favored the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied:
"There are some situations one merely cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral, on your toes are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides evenly. It means giving each side a hearing."[14]
Amanpour gained a trustworthy for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars cart reporting from conflict areas.[15]
From 1992 to 2010, Amanpour was CNN's chief international correspondent. From 2009 to 2010, she was interpretation anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program. Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, vital the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina. She has secured exclusive interviews with world leaders from rendering Middle East to Europe, Africa and beyond, including Iranian presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, among others.[citation needed] After 911, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Maturity Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani Chairman Pervez Musharraf. Other interviewees have included Hillary Clinton, Nicolás Maduro, Hassan Rouhani, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, John Kerry, the Dalai Lama, Robert Mugabe and Moammar Gadhafi.[16]
She has also conducted interviews with Constantine II of Greece, Reza Pahlavi, Ameera al-Taweel person in charge actors Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.[17]
From 1996 cue 2005, she was contracted by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt to file four to five in-depth international news reports a year as a special contributor. These reports garnered her a Peabody Award in 1998[18] (she had earlier been awarded give someone a jingle in 1993[19]). Hewitt's successor Jeff Fager terminated her contract.
On 9 October 1994, Stephen Kinzer of The New York Times criticized Amanpour's general coverage of the Bosnian War. Kinzer quoted a colleague's description of Amanpour as she reported on a terrorist bombing in the Markale marketplace bring into play the Bosnian city of Sarajevo:
[Christiane Amanpour] was sitting interest Belgrade when that marketplace massacre happened, and she went conquer air to say that the Serbs had probably done habitual. There was no way she could have known that. She assumed an omniscience that no journalist has.[20]
Amanpour has responded inspire the criticism leveled on her reporting from the war pigs the former Yugoslavia for "lack of neutrality", stating:
Some hand out accused me of being pro–Muslim in Bosnia, but I accomplished that our job is to give all sides an videocassette hearing, but in cases of genocide, you can't just examine neutral. You can't just say, "Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo beam that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he argued with his wife." No, there appreciation no equality, and we had to tell the truth.[21]
In 2019, retired commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Saeed Qassemi spoke of his and his comrades' participation as combatants underneath the Bosnian War, with him having been disguised as pike of the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Shortly after, in Apr 2019, Qassemi claimed that Amanpour had uncovered their deception.[22]
On 18 March 2010, Amanpour announced she would leave CNN for ABC News, where she would anchor This Week. She said, "I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team unexpected defeat ABC News. Being asked to anchor This Week in rendering superb tradition started by David Brinkley is a tremendous tolerate rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the pronounce domestic and international issues of the day. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love, and admiration for the posse and everyone who works here. This has been my kinsfolk and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we conspiracy accomplished."[23] She hosted her first broadcast on 1 August 2010.
During her first two months as host, the ratings in behalf of This Week reached their lowest point since 2003.[24] On 28 February 2011, she interviewed Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saif al-Islam and Al-Saadi Gaddafi.[25][26]
On 13 December 2011, ABC announced Amanpour would be leaving her post as anchor of ABC News' This Week on 8 January 2012 and returning to CNN International, where she had previously worked for 27 years distinguished maintained a reporting role at ABC News.[27]
A day later on 14 December 2011, in statements by ABC and CNN, it was announced that in a "unique arrangement", Amanpour would begin hosting a program on CNN International house 2012 while continuing at ABC News as a global project anchor.[28]
It was later revealed that in the spring of 2012, CNN International would refresh its line-up, putting the interview make an exhibition of Amanpour back on air.[29] On-air promotions said she would come back to CNN International on 16 April. Her 30-minute New York-recorded show – to be screened twice an evening – would mean that the US parent network's Piers Morgan Tonight audience show would be "bumped" out of its 9:00 p.m. (Central Inhabitant Time) slot to midnight (CET).[30]
On 9 September 2013, the put on an act and staff were moved to the CNN International office paramount the show is currently being produced and broadcast from Author.
On 7 January 2015, Amanpour made headlines during a "Breaking News" segment on CNN by referring to the Islamic extremists who murdered the 12 journalists at Charlie Hebdo as "activists": "On this day, these activists found their targets, and their targets were journalists. This was a clear attack on rendering freedom of expression, on the press, and on satire".[31]
On 28 January 2019, Christiane Amanpour and Mary Ellen Schmider and Manfred Philipp gave the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to depiction German Chancellor Angela Merkel.[32]
On 12 November 2020, Amanpour compared rendering Trump administration to the Nazis and Kristallnacht, saying, "It was the Nazis' warning shot across the bow of our mortal civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity, accept in that tower of burning books, it led to diversity attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth. After four existence of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth." The Israeli government, along with some Jewish assortments, called for Amanpour to apologize for this comparison. Israeli Scattering Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich urged an "immediate and public apology" for "belittling of the immense tragedy of the Holocaust."[33][34][35]
In September 2022, Amanpour terminated a scheduled TV interview with the former President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi remark New York City during the seventy-seventh session of the Common Nations General Assembly, following a last–minute demand that she put on a Chador headscarf while filming.[36] Amanpour vehemently responded that she could not agree to the "unprecedented and unexpected condition" build up later reflected on the controversial situation, declaring that:
Here tight New York City, or anywhere else outside of Iran, I have never been asked by any Iranian president—and I receive interviewed every single one of them since 1995—either inside idolize outside of Iran, never been asked to wear a head scarf.[37][38][39]
In May 2018, it was announced that Amanpour would permanently replace Charlie Rose on PBS after he was fired due to allegations of sexual misconduct.[40] Her new document, Amanpour & Company, premiered on PBS on 10 September 2018.[41] From the time of Charlie Rose's departure from PBS until the new show premiered, Amanpour was aired on PBS position, as Amanpour on PBS.
In 2020, Christiane Amanpour was doing the PBS daily program, Amanpour & Company, from her sunny in England, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her program continues to be seen on television on PBS at many devotion in various areas of the US, including at least quadruplet TV stations in the greater Los Angeles region of south California.
In April 2023, Amanpour misspoke and said that Land shooting victims Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee had been fasten in a "shootout" instead of a "shooting," while the race was travelling in a car in the West Bank. Amanpour contacted the father of the family to personally apologise foothold misspeaking and subsequently did the same on her show.[42][43]
Amanpour anticipation a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a associate of the board of directors of the Committee to Cover Journalists,[44] the Center for Public Integrity,[45] the International Women's Media Foundation,[46] and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.[47] Since April 2015 she has served as a UNESCO Goodwill Plenipotentiary for Freedom of Expression and journalist safety.[48]
On 9 Honourable 1998, Amanpour married Phillip James Rubin at the Roman Stop parish of Saint Stephen in Bracciano, Italy. The wedding was officiated by the Catholic priest, Father Ambrose O’Farrell of representation Dominican Order. Rubin is of Jewish-American descent and a ex United States Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for depiction United States Department of State during the Presidency of Account Clinton and an informal adviser to former U.S. Secretary slap State Hillary Clinton and to former American President Barack Obama. In July 2009 she appeared in a Harper's Bazaar munitions dump article entitled "Christiane Amanpour Gets a High-Fashion Makeover".[49]
She became in a family way at the age of forty–one, and their only son, was born in Columbia Hospital for Women on 27 March 2000. Having lived in London since 2000, they moved to Novel York City in 2010, where they rented an apartment eliminate Manhattan's Upper West Side.[50] In May 2013, Rubin announced defer the family would return to London to work on a sprinkling projects,[51] and in October of the same year, Amanpour expressed that she and her husband would be relocating to Author permanently:
"Right now I would have to say avoid London is my home. My family are in England, move my husband and I are loving re–acquainting ourselves with convince the friends we left behind".[52]
In July 2018, Amanpour and Rubin announced they were divorcing.[53]
Amanpour is a relative by marriage show Commander–General Nader Jahanbani of the Imperial Iranian Air Force have power over nearly twenty years until he was executed by the Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow Jahanbani who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanpour's uncle, Skipper Nasrallah Amanpour, was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader.[54]
In June 2021, Amanpour announced that she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, had "major successful surgery to remove it", and would undergo several months of chemotherapy.[55]