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The interview explores the history and rise of Islamophobia in America, particularly before and after 9/11.
Mehdi Hasan is an award-winning British political journalist, commentator and broadcaster, now
based in the United States, where he hosts a weekly current affairs show for Al Jazeera English
called 'UpFront'. He has interviewed presidents and prime ministers from across the globe, has
been included in the annual list of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world, and was also
selected as one of the 100 most influential Britons on Twitter. Mehdi is a former political director
of the Huffington Post UK, a former columnist for the Guardian and the New Statesman magazine, and the author of two books. He is a graduate of Oxford University; his debate-winning speech at the Oxford Union on Islam and peace in May 2013 went viral, amassing over 2 million views on YouTube and millions more on Facebook.
