Ali Hashem is a columnist for Al-Monitor a reporter who covers the Middle East in general with special emphasis on Iranian affairs.
17 Facts About Ali Hashem
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Ali Hashem currently serves as a senior journalist at Al Jazeera English and prior to that he was BBC's Iran affairs correspondent.
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Ali Hashem is among the first staff that launched Al Mayadeen news channel in 2012 and BBC's Arabic Television in 2008.
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Ali Hashem wrote a detailed biography of Al-Baghdadi for Al-Monitor and the Sunday Times that were referenced in several books on the subject.
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Ali Hashem was the first journalist to interview Libyan general Khalifa Haftar on the outset of the events in Libya.
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Ali Hashem has written for several international Institutes and media outlets, such as Foreign Policy, The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Middle East Institute, the Century Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, among others.
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Ali Hashem resigned from the Qatari channel only one year after joining its office in Beirut in protest over "bias" reporting of the Syrian crisis, accusing the Qatari government of pushing Al Jazeera towards "media suicide".
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Ali Hashem was born to a family of Lebanese immigrants in the West African state of Sierra Leone.
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Ali Hashem resigned from AlJazeera in 2012 to join the newly established AlMayadeen.
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In 2017, Ali Hashem announced that he'll be leaving AlMayadeen to return to the BBC Arabic.
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Ali Hashem was based in the South Lebanese city of Tyre and covered several events that took place during the war.
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In 2007 Ali Hashem joined BBC Arabic after a couple of months with newly launched Al Jazeera English language channel.
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At BBC Arabic, Ali Hashem reported from various locations and covered several stories, later on he produced and presented a weekly flagship program named the commission.
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Ali Hashem was stationed in Benghazi where he covered the NATO strikes and the battles fought between the rebels and Gaddafi's forces.
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Ali Hashem travelled to Somalis to cover Famine and drought there.
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Ali Hashem rejoined BBC Arabic in 2018 to become the channel's Iran affairs correspondent.
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Ali Hashem was the first BBC Arabic reporter to gain access to Iran since the organisation was expelled amid the 2009 uprising.