Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American political journalist, broadcaster and author of Indian descent.Hasan has been the host of The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.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.Hasan is the co-author of a biography of Ed Miliband and 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.