Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan
Hasan at a Labour Party conference in 2012
Born
Mehdi Raza Hasan

July 1979 (age 44–45)
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
EducationMerchant Taylors' School
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Organisations
Notable workWin Every Argument (2023 book) Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader
TelevisionThe Café, Head to Head, UpFront, The Mehdi Hasan Show
Websitezeteo.com

Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979)[1][2][3] is a British-American progressive broadcaster, political commentator, columnist, author and co-founder of the media company Zeteo. He presented The Mehdi Hasan Show[4] on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC from February 2021 until the show's cancellation in November 2023.[5][6] On the final broadcast on 7 January 2024, he announced that he was leaving MSNBC.[7] In February 2024, Hasan joined The Guardian as a columnist.[8]

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's English news channel, and in 2015 moved to Washington, D.C. to work full-time for Al Jazeera on UpFront[9] and host the Deconstructed podcast produced by the online publication The Intercept from 2018 to 2020.[10]

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[11] and the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows: The Café, Head to Head and UpFront.[12]

He created the digital media company, Zeteo News, in February 2024: the media "features a broad range of opinions and ideas—not just his".[13]

  1. ^ Head to head – Will the internet set us free? Archived 4 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Al Jazeera English, 4 April 2014 (video, 47 mins), at 7:20 – 7:25 min
  2. ^ "Mehdi Raza HASAN – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Archived from the original on 3 February 2017.
  3. ^ "findmypast.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Peacock Announces Shows For Mehdi Hasan and Zerlina Maxwell". Mediaite. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. ^ Steinberg, Brian (25 February 2021). "Mehdi Hasan Launches Show in MSNBC Weekend Prime".
  6. ^ "MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show | Semafor". www.semafor.com. 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Medhi Hasan Leaves MSNBC After Show Cancellation". 8 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Guardian US announces Mehdi Hasan as new regular columnist". The Guardian. 21 February 2024. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Mehdi Hasan to host new weekly show on Al Jazeera" Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Al Jazeera, 18 December 2014
  10. ^ "A Goodbye Message from Mehdi" – via play.acast.com.
  11. ^ "Mehdi Hasan". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  12. ^ "Mehdi Hasan – Profile". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Joyella was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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