Mehdi Hasan Explained

Mehdi Hasan
Native Name Lang:ur
Birth Name:Mehdi Raza Hasan
Birth Place:Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Education:Merchant Taylors' School
Alma Mater:Christ Church, Oxford
Notable Works: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

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".

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).[14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

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.[19] 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,[20] 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.[21] He was appointed senior editor for politics at the New Statesman in late spring of 2009,[22] 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.[23] Hasan has appeared (six times) on the BBC's Question Time programme,[24] and the Sunday morning programmes The Big Questions[25] and Sunday Morning Live.[26] 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.[27] 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.[9]

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.[28]

2021–2024: The Mehdi Hasan Show and move from MSNBC to The Guardian

Hasan hosted The Mehdi Hasan Show[29] 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.[30] [31] 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.[32] [33] NBC stated the shifts were coincidental and not due to the hosts' religion.[34] [35] Eric Bazail-Eimil of Politico noted, the decision made by the network "in favor of more straight news coverage of the conflict".[36] On 30 November 2023, it was announced that Hasan's MSNBC and Peacock shows would end.[37] Hasan announced at the end of his final show on 7 January 2024 that he had decided to leave the network.[38] Hasan joined The Guardian as a regular columnist in February.[39] 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".[40] 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,[41] 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.[42] On April 19, 2024, it was announced that Bassem Youssef will join Zeteo as co-host for their new podcast 'We're Not Kidding'.[43]

Views and political beliefs

Islamic faith

During a sermon delivered in 2009, Hasan made remarks about the kuffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran. Quoting a verse of the Quran, Hasan used the term "cattle" to describe non-believers and called them "incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices".[44] In another sermon, he used the term "animals" to describe non-Muslims.[45] [46] He also included homosexuality in a list of categories which he argued were transgressive of Islam.[47]

Quotes from these sermons were first publicized by Peter Hitchens in 2012. When Hitchens reached out to Hasan for a comment, the latter replied these remarks had "been taken wholly out of context".[48] In 2019, Hasan apologized for these earlier statements, which he declared to "deeply regret" now, and called them "dumb", "ranty" and "offensive".[49] [50]

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.[51] Middle East Eye reported that Hasan "challenges Piers Morgan's treatment of pro-Palestinian guests".[52]

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 lefties and liberals to try to understand and respect the views of those of us who are pro-life".[53] Hasan argued that the issue of abortion "is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right-wingers talk of equality, human rights and 'defending the innocent', while left-wingers fetishise 'choice', selfishness and unbridled individualism."[53] He later regretted expressing himself in this way.[54] However, the article gained much attention on Twitter[55] and Hasan debated the issue with Suzanne Moore on BBC Radio 4's Today.[56]

Telegraph blogger Brendan O'Neill thought both Hasan and his pro-choice opponents shared an "instinct for paternalism, a belief that the job of the modern Left is to care for and coo over the weak and puny of the world."[57] Meanwhile, Labour MP Diane Abbott thought that "any feminist, worth the name, knows that control over [our] own bodies is ground zero for every educational, social and economic advance that women have made in the last century".[58] Cristina Odone wrote: "... there is no greater intolerance than that of the so-called tolerant liberals: pro-choice advocates will not allow any discussion of abortion that questions the status quo. Poor Hasan ventured into terrain marked 'taboo'".[59]

In a 2020 series of tweets, Hasan expressed regrets for "having expressed offensive & illiberal views in the past on everything from homosexuality to abortion" and stated that they were views he no longer holds.[60]

Pakistan

Hasan has been critical of the human rights situation in Pakistan, expressing disapproval of the country's blasphemy law,[61] as well as enforced disappearances in Balochistan. He has also criticised the human rights situation in both Indian and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and has called out alleged backing from Pakistan for terror groups like Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out attacks in the Indian-administered region.[62]

In a May 2021 interview with CNN on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Israelis "are very influential people”, adding, “I mean, they control media.” Hasan tweeted during the ensuing controversy: “I see some people trying to defend the Pakistani foreign minister's remarks as anti-Israeli & not anti-Semitic but let's be clear: if you are accusing Israelis of having ‘deep pockets’ and ‘controlling’ the media, then yeah, you're invoking some pretty anti-Semitic slurs. Sorry.”[63]

Saudi Arabia

Hasan has made several statements in opposition to the Saudi government, including challenging a statement made by Donald Trump, in which he claimed that he himself had no financial interests in Saudi Arabia, an allegation which Trump called "fake news".[64] Hasan challenged Trump's statements in a video essay published by The Intercept in October 2018.[65]

In February 2019, during a debate organised by Intelligence Squared in London,[66] Hasan stated that the West should cut ties with Saudi Arabia, saying: "It's time we make clear that the West needs to cut its ties with Saudi Arabia, especially military ties, arms exports, weapons, bombs."

The comments were made in response to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, allegedly ordered by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman, as well as several human rights violations which Hasan cited as also being carried out by Saudi Arabia.[67] Hasan had previously interviewed Khashoggi about freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia.[68]

Personal life

Citizenship

Hasan became a naturalised citizen of the United States on 9 October 2020, in time to vote in the 2020 United States presidential election.[69]

Recognition

In January 2014, Hasan was awarded the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards.[70] In 2017, he was named European Young Leader by the Brussels-based Friends of Europe think tank.[71] In 2019, Hasan won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Column Writing.[72]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/headtohead/2014/02/will-internet-set-us-free-201421392117702994.html Head to head – Will the internet set us free?
  2. Web site: Mehdi Raza HASAN – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170203073131/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/1wPnnRkPaWz1hE1pgbDC8TsTKv8/appointments . 3 February 2017 .
  3. Web site: findmypast.co.uk . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202045819/http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=raza&lastname=hasan&eventyear=1979&eventyear_offset=0 . 2 February 2017 .
  4. Web site: 3 October 2020 . Peacock Announces Shows For Mehdi Hasan and Zerlina Maxwell . 6 October 2020 . Mediaite . en.
  5. Web site: Mehdi Hasan Launches Show in MSNBC Weekend Prime . Brian . Steinberg . 25 February 2021.
  6. Web site: 2023-11-30 . MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show Semafor . 2023-11-30 . www.semafor.com . en.
  7. Web site: Medhi Hasan Leaves MSNBC After Show Cancellation . 8 January 2024 .
  8. News: 2024-02-21 . Guardian US announces Mehdi Hasan as new regular columnist . 2024-02-22 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  9. http://pr.aljazeera.com/post/105514616575/mehdi-hasan-to-host-new-weekly-show-on-al-jazeera "Mehdi Hasan to host new weekly show on Al Jazeera"
  10. Web site: A Goodbye Message from Mehdi . play.acast.com.
  11. News: Mehdi Hasan . Huffington Post . 23 March 2013 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20130402065544/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/ . 2 April 2013 .
  12. Web site: Mehdi Hasan – Profile . Al Jazeera . 23 March 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130707023722/http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/profile/mehdi-hasan.html . 7 July 2013 .
  13. Web site: Al Jazeera announces the return of 'Head to Head' with Mehdi Hasan . Al Jazeera . 19 June 2024 . 2 August 2024.
  14. Hasan . Mehdi . Mehdi Hasan . mehdirhasan . 680798964480913410 . 26 December 2015 . I'm British, of Indian origin. Here's ludicrous, offensive, inaccurate tweet that ludicrous Fatah quietly deleted: https://t.co/p0yZnqhVku . en . 20 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210709194505/https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/680798964480913410 . 9 July 2021 . live.
  15. Hasan . Mehdi . Mehdi Hasan . mehdirhasan . 1106966269897646080 . 16 March 2019 . My dad is an engineer from Hyderabad, India. These stories are so hard to read. RIP. My thoughts and prayers and solidarity goes out to all the victims' families. https://t.co/ty5FqIAyLo . en . 20 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210528112124/https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1106966269897646080 . 28 May 2021 . live.
  16. Hasan . Mehdi . Mehdi Hasan . mehdirhasan . 1352021522190315525 . 20 January 2021 . I'm the proud son of south Indian immigrants to the West myself so, yes, let me take some pride in this historic success of the daughter of a south Indian immigrant. And, no, it doesn't mean I agree with the new VP's policies or positions on any particular issue. Grow up, folks . en . 20 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210422094038/https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1352021522190315525 . 22 April 2021 . live.
  17. News: Mehdi Hasan on making it in America and why media can't 'reset the clock' on Trump . . William . Turvill . 10 March 2022 . 25 June 2023.
  18. News: 'Biden's the most impressive president of my lifetime': Mehdi Hasan on Fox News, tough questions and post-Trump politics . . David . Smith . 23 February 2023 . 25 June 2023.
  19. Web site: OMTs . Merchant Taylors' School . 23 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130429162214/http://www.mtsn.org.uk/index.php?id=159 . 29 April 2013 . live .
  20. News: Question Time: as it happened 26th October . 25 October 2012 . The Daily Telegraph . 23 March 2013 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20121029004908/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9634721/Question-Time-live.html . 29 October 2012 .
  21. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=49357&c=1 "Mehdi Hasan joins HuffPo UK as political director"
  22. Dany Al Samad "New Statesman recruits Mehdi Hasan as senior editor (Politics)", Journalism.co.uk
  23. http://www.aljazeera.com/pressoffice/2012/05/20125178571568173.html "Mehdi Hasan joins Al Jazeera as host"
  24. On 13 May 2010, 23 September 2010, 10 February 2011, 8 December 2011, 25 October 2012 and 3 October 2013
  25. Web site: The Big Questions . 23 March 2013 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20110120204737/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xhgkl . 20 January 2011 .
  26. Web site: Sunday Morning Live . 23 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170730140339/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0147f3t . 30 July 2017 . live .
  27. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Web site: Mehdi Hasan Islam Is A Peaceful Religion Oxford Union . YouTube. 3 July 2013 .
  28. Web site: Hasan . Mehdi Hasan . A Goodbye Message from Mehdi . Acast.com . Acast . 2 October 2020.
  29. Web site: Watch The Mehdi Hasan Show Streaming Online | Peacock . @peacocktv.
  30. Web site: MSNBC Gives Mehdi Hasan's Show A Sunday Night Slot . Johnson . Ted . Yahoo News . 25 February 2021 . 18 September 2021.
  31. Web site: The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC . MSNBC.
  32. Web site: Tani . Max . Inside MSNBC's Middle East conflict . Yahoo News . 15 October 2023 . 13 October 2023.
  33. Web site: 2023-10-13 . Inside MSNBC's Middle East conflict Semafor . 2023-10-21 . www.semafor.com . en.
  34. Web site: 2023-10-16 . MSNBC denies report it sidelined Muslim anchors . 2023-10-21 . en-US.
  35. News: Heer . Jeet . 2023-10-16 . The Fight Over MSNBC's Cave-in to Islamophobia . en-US . 2023-10-21 . 0027-8378.
  36. Web site: Progressives criticize MSNBC for canceling Mehdi Hasan show. Politico. March 13, 2024.
  37. Web site: Johnson . Ted . MSNBC To Drop Mehdi Hasan's Show, Launch 'The Weekend' As Part Of Overhaul Of Saturday And Sunday Lineup . . 30 November 2023.
  38. Web site: Weprin . Alex . 2024-01-08 . Mehdi Hasan Exits MSNBC After Cancelation of His Sunday Show . 2024-01-08 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
  39. News: Mastrangelo . Dominick . 2024-02-21 . Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan joining The Guardian . 2024-02-22 . The Hill . en-US.
  40. News: Joyella. Mark . 2024-02-28 . Mehdi Hasan Says His New Digital Media Company Will Allow Him 'To Speak Bluntly' About The News . Forbes . 2024-03-15.
  41. News: 2024-03-06. Debunked! – the first in Mehdi Hassan's new series. Jewishvoiceforlabour.org . 2024-03-15.
  42. Web site: The 'Debate Me' Bro Mehdi Hasan's aggressive interviewing style landed him a Sunday show on MSNBC. Until he started talking about Palestine. . Jung . E. Alex . 23 April 2024 . . 25 May 2024.
  43. https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-bassem-youssef-joins-zeteo Exclusive: Bassem Youssef Joins Zeteo
  44. Web site: Arbaeen Majlis 2009 (Mehdi Hassan) . Islamic Unity Society . 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110907055648/http://www.ius.org.uk/audio/arbaeen-majlis-2009.html . 7 September 2011.
  45. News: Jon . Levine . Al Jazeera Host Mehdi Hasan Apologizes for Past Criticisms of Non-Believers . The Wrap . 25 March 2019 .
  46. Web site: Douglas . Murray . Peter Hitchens vs Mehdi Hasan . The Spectator . 6 August 2012 .
  47. Web site: Al Jazeera Host Mehdi Hasan Apologizes for Past Criticisms of Non-Believers . 25 March 2019 .
  48. Web site: Am I an 'animal', a 'cow' - or just another victim of BBC bias?. 2012-08-04.
  49. https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1109561845822697472
  50. Web site: Al Jazeera Host Mehdi Hasan Apologizes for Past Criticisms of Non-Believers . 25 March 2019 .
  51. Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh (Hosts), Mehdi Hasan (Guest) . Mehdi Hasan on Genocide in Gaza, the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in U.S. Media & Trump's Fascism . 14 March 2024 . Democracy Now! . 14 March 2024 . 4:17,13:24.
  52. News: Mehdi Hassan challenges Piers Morgan's treatment of pro-Palestinian guests . 14 March 2024 . Middle East Eye . 14 March 2024.
  53. News: Hasan . Mehdi . Being pro-life doesn't make me any less of a lefty . https://web.archive.org/web/20130105073414/http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/lifestyle/2012/10/being-pro-life-doesnt-make-me-any-less-lefty . 5 January 2013 . New Statesman . 11 October 2012. Hasan's two articles on the abortion debate were cross-posted at The Huffington Post.
  54. News: Hasan . Mehdi . 10 things I learned from debating abortion on Twitter . https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110641/http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2012/10/10-things-i-learned-debating-abortion-twitter . 18 December 2012 . New Statesman . 16 October 2012.
  55. News: Has pro-lifer Mehdi Hasan been victimised on Twitter? . https://web.archive.org/web/20121227014541/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iv-drip/has-prolifer-mehdi-hasan-been-victimised-on-twitter-8212873.html . 27 December 2012 . The Independent . 16 October 2012.
  56. News: Can the left be anti-abortion? . https://web.archive.org/web/20121203034113/http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9760000/9760248.stm . 3 December 2012 . Today . BBC News . 16 October 2012.
  57. News: Brendan . O'Neill . Mehdi Hasan and his shrill critics have more in common than they are willing to admit . https://web.archive.org/web/20121226063221/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100185330/mehdi-hasan-and-his-shrill-critics-have-more-in-common-than-they-are-willing-to-admit/ . 26 December 2012 . The Daily Telegraph. 17 October 2012.
  58. Diane . Abbott . We Must Recognise That Real Women's Lives Are at Stake in All of This . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021010633/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/diane-abbott/abortion-real-womens-lives-are-at-stake_b_1972865.html . 21 October 2012 . . 17 October 2012.
  59. News: Cristina . Odone . Why won't feminists let men debate abortion? . https://web.archive.org/web/20121229103813/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100185150/why-wont-feminists-let-men-debate-abortion/ . 29 December 2012 . telegraph.co.uk . 16 October 2012.
  60. Hasan . Mehdi . Mehdi Hasan . mehdirhasan . 1280693015280078848 . 7 July 2020 . I'm under no illusions btw: I say this as someone who has been lambasted by many liberals online – & almost hounded out of a job – for having expressed offensive & illiberal views in the past on everything from homosexuality to abortion (views which I regret, & no longer hold). . en . 20 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210614183105/https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1280693015280078848 . 14 June 2021 . live.
  61. Web site: Hasan . Mehdi . 21 August 2012 . Not In My Name: Islam, Pakistan and the Blasphemy Laws . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210813165736/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/not-in-my-name-islam-pakistan-and-blasphemy-laws_b_1815522.html . 2021-08-13 . . en.
  62. News: Hasan . Mehdi . Mazari . Shireen . Kashmir and Balochistan: Will Pakistan own up to rights abuses? . UpFront . . YouTube.
  63. Web site: Ayaz Gul . 21 May 2021 . Pakistan Official's Alleged Antisemitic Remarks Spark Controversy . . en.
  64. Web site: No financial interests in Saudi Arabia? Trump has said differently before . Kevin. Liptak. Erica. Orden . CNN . 16 October 2018 . 19 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190220002936/https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/politics/donald-trump-saudi-financial-interests/index.html . 20 February 2019 . live .
  65. Web site: Does Saudi Arabia Own Donald Trump? . Hasan . Mehdi . 16 October 2018 . The Intercept . en-US . 19 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190220062819/https://theintercept.com/2018/10/16/donald-trump-saudi-arabia/ . 20 February 2019 . live .
  66. Web site: 'West needs to cut all ties with Saudi Arabia' . Şafak . Yeni . Yeni Şafak . tr-TR . 19 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190220003142/https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/west-needs-to-cut-all-ties-with-saudi-arabia-3473913 . 20 February 2019 . live .
  67. News: Shalaby . Khaled . Mehdi Hasan argues that the West should cut ties with Saudi Arabia . Middle East Eye . 19 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190220062914/https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/mehdi-hasan-argues-west-should-cut-ties-saudi-arabia . 20 February 2019 . live .
  68. News: Hasan . Mehdi . Khashoggi . Jamal . Shihabi . Ali . 20 Oct 2018 . Khashoggi on life under MBS: 'Nobody dares to speak' . UpFront . Al Jazeera . 19 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190206191401/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/khashoggi-life-mbs-dares-speak-181010065141849.html . 6 February 2019 . live .
  69. 1314548600345686016 . mehdirhasan . Anyways, back to the oath ceremony. Took the oath. Congratulated my fellow immigrants. Got the naturalization certificate. It's done. I'm officially a citizen of the United States and ready to vote, weeks before the most consequential U.S. election of our lifetimes. . Mehdi Hassan . 9 October 2020.
  70. News: British Muslim Awards 2014 winners . Asian Image . 31 January 2014 . 1 November 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151122185051/http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/united_kingdom/10978079.British_Muslim_Awards_2014_winners/ . 22 November 2015 .
  71. Web site: European Young Leaders . EPIC . Friends of Europe . en-US . 26 November 2019.
  72. Web site: Announcing the 2018 Sigma Delta Chi Award winners.

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