Interviews with attitude, tackling the big issues of our time with Mehdi Hasan.


Mehdi Hasan is an award-winning British journalist, broadcaster, author and political commentator. He is the presenter of both UpFront (filmed in Wash... ington DC) and Head to Head (filmed at the Oxford Union). Mehdi is a senior contributor at the The Intercept (TI), and host of TI's Deconstructed podcast. He has been named one of the 100 'most influential' Britons on Twitter, and was included in the annual global list of 'The 500 Most Influential Muslims' in the world ('The Muslim 500').
Interviews with attitude, tackling the big issues of our time with Mehdi Hasan.

The inconvenient truth about Ehud Barak, Martin Indyk and the Clinton Parameters.
![US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Martin Indyk, US Special Envoy for Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, in 2013 [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2032c215a3e6440ba536e61b867c949c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Whatever you think of Barack Obama’s policies, don’t dismiss the importance of his speech on Islamophobia.

Who or what is stopping David Cameron from doing the ‘right thing’ in the Middle East?
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What you need to know about Iran and the US.
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What are we to believe about Syrian opposition groups?
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Just ask Israel’s own ministers.
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Aung San Suu Kyi was a moral icon, a human rights champion – so why has she been silent about the Rohingya Muslims?
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When Americans vote in November, they may be selecting a president whose main job is simply to manage the US’ decline.

After all these years, are Palestinians any closer to a just and democratic solution and just what form might that take?
