She is the daughter of Richard Zacharia, vice president of the Granada Sales Corporation in New York.
She also writes for The New Republic and makes regular appearances on MSNBC, CNN, and PBS's Washington Week.
From December 2009 through April 2011, she was Jerusalem Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent for The Washington Post.
During her time there, she covered the West Bank and Gaza Strip and has reported from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey.
[2] After leaving the Post, she was appointed Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer in the Communication Department at Stanford University in May 2011.