Mehdi Hasan

Thu January 21, 2027 at 6:30PM

Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre

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about the speaker

Mehdi Hasan is an award-winning British-American journalist, broadcaster, and author known for a fact-driven interview style. He began his career as a researcher and producer working with Jonathan Dimbleby and built a reputation for sharp political analysis at The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, and The Intercept.

Hasan is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of media company Zeteo. He previously hosted The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC and Peacock and served as a guest host on All In with Chris Hayes and The Rachel Maddow Show. Hasan now hosts Head to Head on Al Jazeera English and the podcast Deconstructed. In the UK, he has appeared on Question Time, The Big Questions, and Sunday Morning Live, and writes a column for The Guardian.

He is the author of the bestseller Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking, and co-author of a biography of Ed Miliband. His work has earned the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Column Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists.

About the series

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been described as a rupture – from democratic norms, from the post-war alliance system, from established economic models, and from the rules-based international order the United States itself built. Historians remind us, however, the pressures at play in this political moment are not new. American unilateralism, economic disruption, and democratic backsliding have deep roots and did not necessarily arrive with any one administration.

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