Mehdi Hasan was born in Swindon, a town in Wiltshire County, England. Mehdi Hasan is an award-winning British-American journalist. He is the host of 'The Mehdi Hasan Show' on MSNBC and NBC’s streaming channel Peacock. Hasan is a former columnist and podcaster at The Intercept, a former presenter at Al Jazeera English, and his op-eds have also appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.