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Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) from 2009-12.

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International Politics
13 June 2013

On questions of “US national security”, from wiretaps to Gitmo to drone strikes, Barack Obama has shown his thinking is even less unenlightened than that of the junior Bush. And liberals everywhere better accept that.

UK Politics
30 May 2013

Often, the likes of Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo, who used violence to make “points” about the Muslim world in Woolwich, aren’t “religious fanatics”. The trigger we refuse to see is our foreign policy.

Religion
20 May 2013

I've made homophobic remarks in the past, writes Mehdi Hasan, but now I’ve grown up — and reconciled my Islamic beliefs with my attitude to gay rights.

International Politics
23 April 2013

Critics of “big government” talk as if it’s beyond question that the state’s involvement with our lives is a bad thing.

UK Politics
21 March 2013

It's a shameful fact that Muslims are not only the victims of racial and religious prejudice but purveyors of it, too.

UK Politics
14 February 2013

Saddam is gone – but at what cost?

Politics
28 January 2013

Time for the 44th president to prove he can be the heir to the 16th.

Religion
19 December 2012

Mehdi Hasan v Richard Dawkins.

Middle East
29 November 2012

Long live the Arab Spring - despite the murmurs about Morsi’s “pharaonic” decree in Egypt and the Syrian bloodbath, I refuse to lose faith in the people of the Arab world.

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