PERSON: Mehdi Hasan

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Mehdi Raza Hasan (Urdu: مہدی رضا حسن; born July 1979 is a British-American broadcaster and best-selling author. He has presented The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.<br> <br> In 2015, Hasan moved to Washington, D.C., United States, 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<br> Hasan is the author of Win Every Argument, and the co-author of a biography of Ed Miliband and was formerly the political editor of the U.K. edition of The Huffington Post and the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows: The Café, Head to Head and UpFront.<br> Hasan worked as a researcher and then producer on LWT’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.<br> 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.<br> In March 2021, Hasan launched the same show on MSNBC every Sunday evening. He is 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.<br> <br> >> Wikipedia