Ali Hashem is a journalist with a focus on Iran, and Shiite political Islam. He is the editor in chief of AlMayadeen.net, former Tehran bureau chief for the Al Mayadeen news network, and a former reporter for Al Jazeera and the BBC. His writes regularly for Al-Monitor and Al Mayadeen. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Huffington Post, Abu Dhabi’s The National, The Middle East Institute, and other publications.
