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Christiane Amanpour
(born January 12, 1958) is a reporter for CNN.
Shortly after her birth in London, her father, an Iranian
airline executive, moved the family to Tehran, where the
Amanpours led a privileged life. At age 11 she was sent back to
England where she attended first the Holy Cross Convent School
in Buckinghamshire and then the New Hall School, an exclusive
Roman Catholic girls' school. Her family had to leave Iran after
the Islamic revolution of 1979. Christiane moved to the United
States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island.
After graduation she worked for NBC affiliate WJAR in
Providence, Rhode Island, and in 1983 she was hired by CNN. In
1989 she was posted to Frankfurt, West Germany, and reported on
the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time.
But it was her coverage of the Gulf War that followed Iraq's
occupation of Kuwait in 1990 that made her famous. Thereafter
she reported from the Bosnian war and many other conflict zones.
Although contracted with CNN, she also occasionally appears on
CBS's 60 Minutes.
She speaks English and Persian fluently.In 1998 she married
James Rubin, who at the time was spokesman for the US State
Department. A son, Darius, was born in 2002.
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