Episodes
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges former Prime Minister Raila Odinga on the state of Kenya's "tribal" democracy, political violence, impunity and corruption, and the rise of al-Shabab. In this episode we explore Odinga's defeat in a disputed election which triggered violence and put the country on the brink of civil war. We challenge him on whether he did enough to stop the 2007/08 bloodshed, and ask him if there will ever be justice for the victims. We also explore...
Published 05/06/16
Mehdi Hasan challenges former Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Kenya’s ‘tribal’ democracy, political violence, impunity and corruption, and the rise of al-Shabab. More from Head to Head on:YouTube - http://aje.io/headtoheadYTFacebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHeadWebsite - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 04/29/16
Mehdi Hasan challenges former Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Kenya’s ‘tribal’ democracy, political violence, impunity and corruption, and the rise of al-Shabab. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/headtoheadYT Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 04/29/16
Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with Norman Lamont, former British chancellor and fervent Eurosceptic over why he wants the UK to quit the European Union.More from Head to Head on:YouTube - http://aje.io/headtoheadYTFacebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHeadWebsite - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 04/21/16
Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with Norman Lamont, former British chancellor and fervent Eurosceptic over why he wants the UK to quit the European Union. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/headtoheadYT Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 04/21/16
Interviews with attitude, tackling the big issues of our time with Mehdi Hasan. More from Head to Head on:YouTube - http://aje.io/headtoheadYTFacebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHeadWebsite - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 04/18/16
Interviews with attitude, tackling the big issues of our time with Mehdi Hasan. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/headtoheadYT Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 04/18/16
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Ram Madhav, National General Secretary of India's ruling BJP and former spokesman of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the right-wing Hindu nationalist organisation and ideological wing of the BJP. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/4a46 Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 12/25/15
In this episode of Head to Head , Mehdi Hasan challenges Hina Rabbani Khar, former foreign minister of Pakistan, on whether the army is in control of the country, and if Pakistan has been supporting the Taliban. Joining the discussion are: Omar Waraich, an award-winning British journalist and former Pakistan correspondent for Time Magazine; Humeira Iqtidar, Pakistani Senior Lecturer in Politics of South Asia at King's College London and author of Secularising Islamists? Mosharraf Zaidi,...
Published 12/18/15
Published 12/17/15
Mehdi Hasan challenges Ram Madhav, National General Secretary of India’s ruling BJP, on Hindu nationalism and whether India’s minorities are under attack. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/4a46 Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 12/17/15
In this episode of Head to Head , Mehdi Hasan talks to Natalia Narochnitskaya, a Russian historian and former member of the Duma, or Russian parliament, for the ultra-nationalist party Rodina (Motherland). We discuss with her Russia's intervention in Syria and Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and the consequences of these actions for its relationship with Western powers and NATO. We also discuss President Vladimir Putin's rule and examine the country's human rights...
Published 12/11/15
In this Head to Head special from Washington DC, Mehdi Hasan challenges Paul Bremer, who was appointed by President George W Bush to run the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority in the wake of the Iraq war, on whether his policies led to the rise of ISIL. As the man in charge of the so-called reconstruction effort in post-Saddam Iraq, Bremer ordered the disbanding of the Iraqi army and banned members of the Ba'ath Party from holding public office. These measures, critics say, were directly...
Published 12/04/15
Mehdi Hasan challenges historian and former Motherland party representative Natalia Narochnitskaya over Russia’s stance on Ukraine, ISIL and Syria.
Published 12/04/15
Mehdi Hasan challenges US Ambassador Paul Bremer, former Administrator of Iraq, on whether his policies led to the rise of ISIL. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
Published 11/30/15
Head to Head returns with a new series of challenging interviews probing America’s role in the rise of ISIL, Russia’s stance on Ukraine and Syria, Pakistan’s nascent democracy and Hindu nationalism. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website http://www.aljazeera.com/
Published 11/23/15
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Naomi Wolf, one of the world's best-known feminists and author of the seminal book The Beauty Myth, on where the feminist movement is headed, and whether her controversial latest writings are furthering or undermining the cause of women's rights. More from Head to Head on: YouTube - http://aje.io/4a46 Facebook - http://facebook.com/AJHeadToHead Twitter - http://twitter.com/AJHeadToHead Website - http://aljazeera.com/headtohead
Published 08/14/15
Mehdi Hasan goes head to head with world-renowned feminist author and democracy campaigner Naomi Wolf on the state of feminism and civil liberties. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
Published 08/13/15
Mehdi Hasan goes Head to Head with Michael T. Flynn, former head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, on how to deal with ISIL and Iran. Flynn was the former head of the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and a commander of J-SOC, the ghost military unit whose squads hunted Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan all the way to Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. With no panel or audience, we ask him whether the US is to blame for creating ISIL and whether the War on Terror has become a...
Published 08/13/15