Mariane Pearl is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the “Wall Street Journal” reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.
She began her career as a freelance journalist, and met Daniel Pearl while he was on assignment in Paris. They married in August 1999. They lived in Bombay, India, where he was the South Asia bureau chief for “The Wall Street Journal”, later traveling to Karachi, Pakistan, to cover aspects of the War on Terrorism. After her husband was killed, Pearl authored the memoir “A Mighty Heart”, currently being adapted into a film. Mariane Pearl is a co-founder of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. She is a reporter and “Global Diary” columnist for “Glamour Magazine”.
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