Mehdi Hasan
speaker
4,624 appearances
9 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 9 Jul
Mehdi Hasan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm not an optimistic person, but I am a hopeful person because I'm a person of faith.
And my faith teaches me that we must stay in the struggle, even when we cannot see light at the end of the tunnel.
We must keep fighting to try and see that light.
There's a great line from Desmond Tutu at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, Archbishop Tutu, who said, you know, hope is being able to see the light despite hardship.
all the darkness.
It's not the absence of darkness.
It's being able to see it despite it.
And for me, that's what God and faith means to me.
So at a time when I'm deeply pessimistic about the state of the world, every day I have to cover this shit show with Trump and with Netanyahu and all these people.
That is what keeps me going.
Maybe he'll bond with President Vance over it, who's a very public Catholic right now.
In fact, he converted to Catholicism and now lectures the Pope on what Catholicism is.
No.
Okay.
Justice always forever.
I think my politics are all about justice.
It's all about fighting for fairness.
It's a very modest answer there.
I love arguing.
I wrote a book about arguing.
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