Mehdi Hasan | |
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![]() Hasan at a Labour Party conference in 2012 | |
Born | Mehdi Raza Hasan July 1979 (age 45) Swindon, Wiltshire, England |
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Education | Merchant Taylors' School |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
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Notable work | Win Every Argument (2023 book) Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader |
Television | The Café, Head to Head, UpFront, The Mehdi Hasan Show |
Website | zeteo |
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] Hasan returned as host of Head to Head in June 2024.[13]
He created the digital media company Zeteo News in February 2024: the media "features a broad range of opinions and ideas—not just his".[14]
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