Bayan ya jagoranci aikin bincike kan manufofin kasashen waje na Amurka a Harvard, Zakaria ya zama manajan editan Harkokin Waje a shekarar 1992, yana da shekaru 28. A karkashin jagorancinsa, an sake tsara mujallar kuma ya koma daga kwata-kwata zuwa jadawalin kowane wata biyu. Ya yi aiki a matsayin farfesa mai ba da taimako a Jami'ar Columbia, inda ya koyar da wani taron karawa juna sani kan dangantakar kasa da kasa. A watan Oktoba 2000, an nada shi editan Newsweek International, kuma ya zama mai rubutun mako-mako na Newsweek. A watan Agusta 2010 ya koma Lokaci don yin aiki a matsayin edita mai girma da kuma mai rubutu. Ya rubuta shafi na mako-mako na The Washington Post kuma yana da gudummawar editan kungiyar Atlantic Media, wanda ya hada da The Atlantic Monthly. Tambaya: Shekaru nawa ne lokacin da ya sami aikin?
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