Mehidy Hasan Miraz is a Bangladeshi international cricket player who plays Tests and One Day Internationals for the Bangladesh national team. A bowling-all-rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler.
Mehidy Hasan Biography
Mehdi Raza Hasan born July 1979is a British-American broadcaster and best-selling author of Indian descent. He has presented The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
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
Mehidy Hasan Career
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.
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.
Mehidy 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. Hasan became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 9 October 2020, in time to vote in the 2020 United States presidential election.
Mehidy Hasan currently hosts 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, Mehidy Hasan launched the same show on MSNBC every Sunday evening.[27][28] 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.
During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, MSNBC removed Hasan and two other Muslim broadcasters from anchoring shows on its network.
Mehidy Hasan age
Born on Oct 25, 1997; and as of 2023, he is 26 years old.
Mehidy Hasan net worth
Mehidy Hasan” has a net worth of $5 Million Dollars
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