Bio for Christiane Amanpour ** needs work**

Christiane Amanpour can truly be defined as an international woman. Born on January 12, 1958, in London to a family of mixed heritage, her mother a British woman and father an Iranian airline executive, Christiane Amanpour moved almost immediately with her family to Tehran. Having lived a privileged life in Iran, Christiane traveled back to the United Kingdom at age eleven to study at a number of prestigious girls schools. Her familyfled Iran following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and Christiane moved further west, to the United States, to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island.
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of arts in journalism, Christiane worked at a local radio station in Providence, R.I., first as an electronic graphics designer and eventually as a reporter, before securing her first job at CNN in 1983. Christiane’s began her career at CNN as an assistant on the network’s international assignment desk in Atlanta. In 1989 her was relocated to a post in Frankfurt, Germany where she covered the dramatic revolutions taking place in Eastern Europe at the time.
Notably it was her coverage of the Persian Gulf War that transformed her and her fellow network from a position of relative obscurity to that of a household name. More and more did her assignments and investigations take her to the depths of war, a feat for which she has gained much respect and acclaim. Early examples such courageous war zone coverage include her reporting from the Bosnian War, Yugoslavia at the break-up of the Soviet Union, and Mogadishu, Somalia, as U.S. troops landed during Operation: Restore Hope.
In 1998, she married James Rubin, in who at the time worked as spokesman for the US State Department. The two of them had a son, Darius John Rubin, in 2000. The family currently resides in London; Christiane is based there as CNN’s Chief International Correspondent and Rubin works for Sky TV.
Yet Christiane, never slowing or fearing away, seems to grow continuously in her resolve. Her recent work with CNN is as fierce, daring, and timely as ever. In 2005 Christiane reported from the Tsunami-hit Sri Lanka as well as the hurricane-devastated Louisiana. Christiane covered the 2006 London terrorist attacks, the first democratic elections in Iraq, the death and funeral of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI. She continues to cover the conflict in Darfur and growing anti-American animosity in Iran. In her stories she has proven to never shy away from disaster and yet simultaneously always find the human heart in such conflicted places.
Christiane has received many prestigious awards due to her outstanding journalism, including two George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, a Courage in Journalism Award, a Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Gold Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She helped CNN earn its first duPont award in 1985 with her contribution to the four-week series, ‘Iran: In the Name of God’. In total Christiane has also won nine Emmy awards, including one in 2002 for her documentary ‘Struggle for Islam’.