Mariane Pearl

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Mariane Pearl (born Mariane van Neyenhoff on July 23, 1967 in Clichy-la-Garenne, France) is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.

Mariane Pearl is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch ancestry, and was raised in Paris, France. A freelance journalist, she 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 starring Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman.

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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• Interview with Mariane Pearl on the National Public Radio show, "Speaking of Faith."

• A Mighty Heart. Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton. New York: Scribner, 2003. ISBN 0-7432-4442-7, ISBN 978-0-743-24442-8.

• "Global Diary" column in Glamour Magazine.

• Daniel Pearl Foundation.