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Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American progressive broadcaster, political commentator, columnist, author and co-founder of the media company Zeteo. He presented The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC from February 2021 until the show's cancellation in November 2023. On the final broadcast on 7 January 2024, he announced that he was leaving MSNBC. In February 2024, Hasan joined The Guardian as a columnist. 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 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. He created the digital media company, Zeteo News, in February 2024: the media "features a broad range of opinions and ideas—not just his". Early life and education Mehdi Raza Hasan was born in Swindon to immigrant Indian Hyderabadi Shia Muslim parents from the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, South India (now in Telangana). Hasan was privately educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, 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 then attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and graduated in 2000. Career 2009–2011: Early beginnings 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. 2012–2020: Al Jazeera and The Intercept 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 2013, Hasan took part in a debate at the Oxford Union to consider whether Islam is a peaceful religion. Hasan, who is an Ithna’Asheri Shia Muslim, vouched for Islam as a religion of peace, citing political and cultural reasons for violence in Muslim majority countries, as opposed to holding the religion of Islam responsible. In the vote on the motion, the house affirmed with Hasan and the other proposers that Islam is a religion of peace with 286 votes in favor and 168 votes against. Recorded at the Oxford Union, Head to Head was a programme on Al Jazeera English in which Hasan interviewed public figures; it had run for three series by December 2014. Since 2015, working full-time for the network in Washington, D.C., Hasan has hosted a weekly interview and discussion programme. Hasan began a podcast in 2018 entitled Deconstructed, produced by the investigative journalism website The Intercept. On air, Hasan would discuss recent news topics and host guests. Notable topics covered on the podcast include police brutality, inequality, QAnon, and Donald Trump's activity on Twitter. Notable podcast guests have included Noam Chomsky, Ilhan Omar, and Bernie Sanders. On 2 October 2020, Hasan announced that he would no longer host the show as part of his move to host The Mehdi Hasan Show on NBC's new streaming service, Peacock. 2021–2024: The Mehdi Hasan Show and move from MSNBC to The Guardian Hasan hosted The Mehdi Hasan Show on the online service Peacock since Oct 2020 airing weeknights at 7 pm Eastern. Notable guests on The Mehdi Hasan Show have included Mark Ruffalo, Jon Stewart, John Bolton, Keith Ellison, Ro Khanna, John Legend, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In March 2021, Hasan launched the same show on MSNBC every Sunday evening. He was also the fill-in host on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, The Rachel Maddow Show, The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, MSNBC cancelled the shows of Hasan as well as and two other Muslim commentators, Ayman Mohyeldin and Ali Velshi. NBC stated the shifts were coincidental and not due to the hosts' religion. Eric Bazail-Eimil of Politico noted, the decision made by the network "in favor of more straight news coverage of the conflict". On 30 November 2023, it was announced that Hasan's MSNBC and Peacock shows would end. Hasan announced at the end of his final show on 7 January 2024 that he had decided to leave the network. Hasan joined The Guardian as a regular columnist in February. In March 2015, Hasan appeared in a Guardian opinion video on UK immigration. 2024: Launching of the digital media company Zeteo Forbes interviewed Hasan in February 2024 when the website Zeteo News was created. Hasan stated: Zeteo "is an ancient Greek word that means to seek out, to inquire, to get to the truth". Zeteo was presented as a subscription-based news organization. He announced that the platform will "bring you hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis that you won’t find elsewhere". Hasan presents a new video series on the Zeteo News channel, the first one was called "Debunked! Top seven lies about Gaza". Contributors announced upon Zeteo's launch in April 2024 included Naomi Klein, Greta Thunberg, Viet Thanh Nguyen, John Harwood, Fatima Bhutto and Owen Jones, who would co-host the podcast Two Outspoken alongside Hasan. On April 19, 2024, it was announced that Bassem Youssef will join Zeteo as co-host for their new podcast 'We're Not Kidding'. Views and political beliefs Israel–Hamas War During an interview on Democracy Now! in late March 2024, Hasan expressed his concern about "genocide in Gaza" with regard to Israel's 2023 incursion into Gaza after the October 7 attack on Israel, and that Palestinian perspectives aren't shared in U.S. media. Middle East Eye reported that Hasan "challenges Piers Morgan's treatment of pro-Palestinian guests". Abortion Hasan was formerly against abortion, a position he has since abhorred. In an October 2012 online column for the New Statesman he defended his anti-abortion views in print, writing "What I would like is for my fellow le.... Discover the Mehdi Hasan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mehdi Hasan books.