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Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born 23 July 1967) is a French freelance journalist [1] and a former reporter and columnist [2] for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, [3] an American journalist who was the South Asia Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, during the early months of the United States' War ...
Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped by Islamist militants while he was on his way to what he had expected would be an interview with Pakistani religious cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani in the city of Karachi.
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl (also subtitled A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl) (2003) is a memoir by Mariane Pearl, a freelance French journalist.
The resulting book, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, argues it was because Pearl knew too much about the links between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and al-Qaeda. The book was strongly criticized by both experts and Pearl's own family, including wife Mariane Pearl who called Lévy "a man whose intelligence is destroyed by his own ego". [57] [60]
Ruth Pearl (born Eveline Rejwan; November 11, 1935 – July 20, 2021) was an Israeli-American software developer. She was the mother of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by Muslim extremists connected to Al-Qaeda in 2002. [1] [2] [3]
She was a friend and colleague of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was staying with her in Karachi with his wife Mariane Pearl when he was abducted and later murdered by Islamic militants in January 2002. [26] Nomani is portrayed by British actress Archie Panjabi in the film adaptation of Mariane Pearl's book A Mighty Heart.
He was married to his fifth wife, Pearl Means, until his death. [10] His wife Pearl died ten years later in May 2022, at the age of 62. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] He had a total of ten children: seven biological children and three adopted children, who were "adopted in the Lakota way", [ 41 ] including Tatanka Means who is also an actor.
Saud Memon (circa 1961 – 18 May 2007) was a Pakistani [1] [2] [3] businessman from Karachi dealing in yarn and textiles. [4] Memon was said to own the Al-Qaeda safe house in Karachi where American journalist Daniel Pearl was killed. [1]