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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born 10 July 1979) is a British-American broadcaster, journalist, and founder of the media company Zeteo. He presented The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock from October 2020 and on MSNBC from February 2021 until the show's cancellation in November 2023.
A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, Hasan began his television career as a researcher and then producer on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme. Following a stint on the BBC's The Politics Show, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. In 2009, he was appointed senior editor for politics at the New Statesman. In 2012, he became a presenter on Al Jazeera English, and in 2015, he moved to Washington, D.C., to work full-time for Al Jazeera on UpFront and host the Deconstructed podcast produced by the online publication The Intercept from 2018 to 2020.
Hasan is the author of Win Every Argument and the co-author of a biography of former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. He was formerly the political editor of the UK edition of The Huffington Post and the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows The Café, Head to Head and UpFront. After departing MSNBC, Hasan joined The Guardian as a columnist and created the digital media company Zeteo in February 2024, and returned as host of Head to Head in June that year.
Hasan was born on 10 July 1979 in Swindon, Wiltshire, in South West England to Shia Muslim parents from Hyderabad in Telangana, Southern India, his mother a doctor and his father an engineer. Hasan grew up in Harrow, an area of outer North West London.
Hasan was privately educated at Merchant Taylors' School, an independent day school for boys at Sandy Lodge, in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, near Northwood in North West London. Hasan and British actor and rapper Riz Ahmed were classmates.
Hasan then went up to Christ Church, University of Oxford, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).
Hasan worked as a researcher and then producer on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief period in between on BBC One's The Politics Show. Following this, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. He was appointed senior editor for politics at the New Statesman in late spring of 2009, where he stayed until May 2012, then becoming political director of The Huffington Post website.
Hasan became a presenter on Al Jazeera's English news channel in May 2012. Hasan has appeared (six times) on the BBC's Question Time programme, and the Sunday morning programmes The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live. In October 2013 on Question Time, Hasan called the Daily Mail "immigrant-bashing, woman-hating, Muslim-smearing, NHS-undermining, [and] gay-baiting". The newspaper responded by printing an e-mail he had sent them in 2010, in which he asked for a column and praised several of their viewpoints. Hasan said the "sycophantic" letter was his writing but criticised the newspaper's decision to publish it.
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born 10 July 1979) is a British-American broadcaster, journalist, and founder of the media company Zeteo. He presented The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock from October 2020 and on MSNBC from February 2021 until the show's cancellation in November 2023.
A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, Hasan began his television career as a researcher and then producer on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme. Following a stint on the BBC's The Politics Show, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. In 2009, he was appointed senior editor for politics at the New Statesman. In 2012, he became a presenter on Al Jazeera English, and in 2015, he moved to Washington, D.C., to work full-time for Al Jazeera on UpFront and host the Deconstructed podcast produced by the online publication The Intercept from 2018 to 2020.
Hasan is the author of Win Every Argument and the co-author of a biography of former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. He was formerly the political editor of the UK edition of The Huffington Post and the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows The Café, Head to Head and UpFront. After departing MSNBC, Hasan joined The Guardian as a columnist and created the digital media company Zeteo in February 2024, and returned as host of Head to Head in June that year.
Hasan was born on 10 July 1979 in Swindon, Wiltshire, in South West England to Shia Muslim parents from Hyderabad in Telangana, Southern India, his mother a doctor and his father an engineer. Hasan grew up in Harrow, an area of outer North West London.
Hasan was privately educated at Merchant Taylors' School, an independent day school for boys at Sandy Lodge, in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, near Northwood in North West London. Hasan and British actor and rapper Riz Ahmed were classmates.
Hasan then went up to Christ Church, University of Oxford, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).
Hasan worked as a researcher and then producer on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief period in between on BBC One's The Politics Show. Following this, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. He was appointed senior editor for politics at the New Statesman in late spring of 2009, where he stayed until May 2012, then becoming political director of The Huffington Post website.
Hasan became a presenter on Al Jazeera's English news channel in May 2012. Hasan has appeared (six times) on the BBC's Question Time programme, and the Sunday morning programmes The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live. In October 2013 on Question Time, Hasan called the Daily Mail "immigrant-bashing, woman-hating, Muslim-smearing, NHS-undermining, [and] gay-baiting". The newspaper responded by printing an e-mail he had sent them in 2010, in which he asked for a column and praised several of their viewpoints. Hasan said the "sycophantic" letter was his writing but criticised the newspaper's decision to publish it.