Rukmini callimachi biography of michael

Romanian-American journalist (born 1973)

Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born Sichitiu^[1] on 25 June 1973)^[2] is a Romanian-born American journalist.

Rukmini Maria Callimachi is a Romanian-born American journalist.

Rukmini Maria Callimachi is a Romanian-born American journalist.

A four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she covers the Islamic State and al-Qaeda for the New York Times, where she regularly speaks to the terrorists.

Rukmini Callimachi joined The New York Times in March as a foreign correspondent, covering Al Qaeda and ISIS.

For her discovery and fearless exploration of internal documents that shattered myths and deepened understanding of the global terrorist network of.

Rukmini Callimachi was born in Bucharest, Romania, when it was still under the rule of communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu.

She currently works for The New York Times. She had been a Pulitzer Prize finalist four times. She hosted the New York Times podcast Caliphate, for which won a Peabody Award, but the Times returned the award after an investigation cast doubt on a significant portion of the podcast.

Background

Callimachi was named "Rukmini" (SanskritRukmiṇī (Devanagari: Sanskrit: रुक्मिणीIPA:[rukmiɳiː]) after the IndiantheosophistRukmini Devi Arundale, founder of Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai, India, with whom her family was close.

Her original surname was Sichitiu. She is stepdaughter of Mihai Botez, a scientist and dissident opposing the Romanian communist regime.^[1] Along her maternal lines, she descends from the Callimachi family of Phanariotes (which is also Greco-Roman