Mehdi Raza Hasan (/ˈmɛdi ˈhʌsən/ MED-ee HUSS-ən; born July 1979)[1][2][3] is a British-American progressive broadcaster and writer, and founder of the media company Zeteo.

[8] A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, Hasan began his television career as a researcher and then producer on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme.

[14] Hasan was born in Swindon to Indian Shia Muslim parents from the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana).

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.

[20] Following this, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise[20] before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs.

[26] In October 2013 on Question Time, Hasan called the Daily Mail "immigrant-bashing, woman-hating, Muslim-smearing, NHS-undermining, [and] gay-baiting".

Notable topics covered on the podcast include police brutality, inequality, QAnon, and Donald Trump's activity on Twitter.

[32][33] 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.

[41] 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.

[13] The program returned with two interviews, one with Israeli historian, Benny Morris, and another with the former translator for Deng Xiaoping, Victor Gao, recorded in London in July 2024.

[13] In late October 2024, Hasan appeared as a guest panelist on the CNN show NewsNight with Abby Phillip to discuss the controversies surrounding statements made at the 2024 Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.

During the discussion, CNN contributor Ryan Girdusky told Hasan "Yeah, well, I hope your beeper doesn’t go off," referring to the 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks which targeted members of Hezbollah by exploding their pagers.

CNN quickly released a statement stating that "There is zero room for racism or bigotry at CNN or on our air," and that "Ryan Girdusky will not be welcomed back at our network.”[44] 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.

[55] However, the article gained much attention on Twitter[56] and Hasan debated the issue with Suzanne Moore on BBC Radio 4's Today.

[58] Hasan has been critical of the human rights situation in Pakistan, expressing disapproval of the country's blasphemy law,[59] 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.

[60] 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."

[69] In 2019, Hasan won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Column Writing.