Mehdi Hasan Biography

Mehdi Hasan a British political journalist, broadcaster, and author known as the co-author of a biography of Ed Miliband and was formerly the political editor of the UK version of The Huffington Post. He is as well the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows: The Café, Head to Head, and UpFront.

Mehdi Hasan Age

Hasan was born Mehdi Raza Hasan on July 10, 1979, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

Mehdi Hasan Aljazeera

Hasan became a presenter on Al Jazeera’s English news channel in May 2012. He has appeared (six times) on the BBC’s Question Time program, and the Sunday morning programs The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live. In his career journey, he started working as a researcher and then a producer on LWT’s Jonathan Dimbleby program, with a brief period in between on BBC1’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 (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.

Mehdi Hasan Net Worth

Hasan has an estimated net worth of $9 million.

Mehdi Hasan Intercept

Hasan began a podcast in 2018 entitled Deconstructed, which is featured on the investigative journal The Intercept. It considers recent news events covering topics ranging from a police shooting to inequality, to President Donald Trump‘s activity on Twitter. The Podcast also has occasional guest star appearances, with his first podcast being with Bernie Sanders.

Hasan is a columnist and senior contributor at The Intercept. He is the host of The Intercept podcast “Deconstructed. In The Intercept’s new podcast, columnist Mehdi Hasan unpacks the most consequential news event of the week, while challenging the mainstream media’s tired takes.

As a Brit, a Muslim, and an immigrant based in Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., Hasan gives a refreshingly provocative perspective on the ups and downs of American and global politics. New episodes every Thursday.

Mehdi Hasan Head To Head

Head to Head is a program on Al Jazeera English in which Hasan interviews major public figures; it had run for three series by December 2014. Since 2015, working full-time for the network in Washington DC, Hasan has hosted a weekly interview and discussion program. The show is recorded at the oxford union.

Mehdi Hasan Sam Harris

Sam Harris, a popular online atheist who has criticized all religions and is affiliated with the “Intellectual Dark Web,” took issue with being labeled as a ‘bigot’ by Hasan. In a sign of the media and political system, we all now inhabit, an all too familiar exchange of character assassination and semantics designed to delegitimize and stigmatize then took place between both individuals.

The story went viral on social media and users started jumping on it. The story started when Hasan, the Intercept and Al Jazeera English TV host, went to Twitter last week in the wake of the Christchurch attack in New Zealand to tweet an extended apology over his old offensive remarks made years ago.

In a 14-tweet thread, Hasan mentioned his offensive remarks in which he compared non-Muslims and atheists to cattle in addition to other homophobic insensitive remarks. The journalist assumed the responsibility for apologizing and getting his “rhetoric right”. He also links articles he wrote about the issue years ago in the Huffington Post and the New Statesman.

Mehdi Hasan Bernie Sanders

The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan sits down with independent senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to discuss why the mainstream press ignores so many of the economic issues that affect the lives of average Americans: poverty, homelessness, and inequality.

Fresh off a Facebook town hall with Elizabeth Warren and Michael Moore that was viewed live by nearly two million people, Sanders warns Democrats: “Anyone who thinks Trump cannot win re-election is just not looking at reality. He can.”

Mehdi Hasan Iran

A regular contributor to The Guardian, Hasan argued in November 2011: “Wouldn’t it be rational for Iran geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?

“Pointing out the difference between America, and its allies, going to “war with non-nuclear Iraq” and their “diplomacy with nuclear-armed North Korea”, Hasan concluded: “The simple fact is there is no alternative to diplomacy, no matter how truculent or paranoid the leaders of Iran might seem to western eyes.”

Hasan wrote an article in The Guardian in September 2011 condemning the Iranian regime for its proposed execution of an “apostate.” “The death sentence given to Youcef Nadarkhani in Iran is an affront to universal moral values and a disservice to Muslims.”

Mehdi Hasan Jake Tapper

Mehdi Hasan ripped the “gutless” anonymous Trump administration official writing a book now, saying if they’ve got some dire warning for the country, they should say it publicly.CNN White House correspondent Jeremy Diamond told Jake Tapper it’s “highly unusual” they’re staying anonymous, suggesting this will help feed into the president’s “deep state narrative “by releasing an entire book on that premise.”

Hasan said, “I rarely agree with Donald J. Trump, but when he called this person gutless, I kind of agreed.”He continued, “If this person has all this information, is an eyewitness to all of this chaos and lawlessness, come out. Say it in your own name, testify in front of Congress, talk to the media. There’s an impeachment inquiry going on right now.”

Hasan also argued if the person is remaining anonymous to help protect America from within, based on everything that’s happened since the op-ed came out, he’s not seeing many indications they’ve done that. Mary Katharine Ham agreed they should put their name on it and said this whole thing is “tiresome.”

Mehdi Hasan Height and Weight

Hasan stands tall at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm, 1.7 m) and Weighs 62 kilograms (136 Ibs).

Mehdi Hasan Education

Hasan joined Merchant Taylors’ School, a day independent school for boys at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, near the town of Northwood in North West London. He later joined Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), and graduated in 2000.

Mehdi Hasan Family

Hasan was born to his Indian parents Raza Hasan an engineer from Hyderabad, India. More information about his family is publicly unavailable. This section will be updated as soon as this information is available.

Mehdi Hasan Wife

Hasan shares tweets of his wife whom he loves so much and their union are blessed with two kids, Together, he and his anonymous wife are proud parents of a daughter, who is currently 11 years old in age.

On 11 July 2018, he watched the World Cup with his beloved daughter. In the tweet he shared, he told me that it was his daughter’s first World Cup game. As of now, he is rejoicing a secluded lifestyle with his family, wife, and children.

Mehdi Hasan Children

Hasan and his wife are has two adorable children.

Mehdi Hasan Salary

Hasan earns an average annual salary of between $24,292 and $72,507.