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Ali Hashem was born on 1980 in Lebanon, is a Journalist. Discover Ali Hashem's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?
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Ali Hashem is a Lebanese journalist.
He is currently a columnist for Al-Monitor covers the Middle East in general with special emphasis on Iranian affairs.
He works for Al Jazeera English and prior to that he was BBC’s Iran affairs correspondent.
With the civil war in Lebanon coming to an end in 1990, and the start of the rebel war in Sierra Leone, the family relocated to Lebanon where he completed his studies.
The journalist received his Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut, and a master's degree in politics and international relations from the Royal Holloway, University of London.
Hashem is married to Rabab Shamas, and they have three children: Malika, Hashem, and Loujain.
On his Linkedin page, Hashem describes himself as follows "for the past 15 years, I worked in several news outlets with varying editorial guidelines, some with conflicting agendas, this provided me with vast experience on how to practice journalism in a politicized sphere while adhering to my journalistic values."
He started his career in 2002 with Hezbollah affiliated TV station Al Manar.
With Al Manar TV, Ali Hashem reported the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.
He was based in the South Lebanese city of Tyre and covered several events that took place during the war.
in 2007 he left to BBC Arabic and then in 2011 to Aljazeera.
After the war, Hashem returned to Beirut where he was shot by a sniper in 2007 during what's known as the Arab University events, he survived, though one of the cameramen was injured.
In 2007 Ali joined BBC Arabic after a couple of months with newly launched Al Jazeera English language channel.
At BBC Arabic, Hashem reported from various locations and covered several stories, later on he produced and presented a weekly flagship program named the commission.
He was the first BBC Arabic reporter to gain access to Iran since the organisation was expelled amid the 2009 uprising.
After joining Al Jazeera in Beirut, Hashem was dispatched to Libya to cover the revolution Libya that erupted on Feb. 17, 2011.
He was stationed in Benghazi where he covered the NATO strikes and the battles fought between the rebels and Gaddafi's forces.
After Libya, he returned to Lebanon, where he had to cover Lebanese politics and tension related to the Syrian uprising on the Syrian Lebanese borders.
Ali travelled to Somalis to cover Famine and drought there.
Hashem is among the first staff that launched Al Mayadeen news channel in 2012 and BBC’s Arabic Television in 2008.
Until March 2012, he was Al Jazeera's war correspondent, covering the revolution in Libya and Syria, draught and famine in Somalia, and Iran’s general election.
He was the first journalist to interview Libyan general Khalifa Haftar on the outset of the events in Libya.
Ali 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.
In the Arab world Ali wrote for Lebanese daily As Safir, the Egyptian dailies Al-Masry Al-Youm and Al-Dustour and the Jordanian daily Al Ghad.
Hashem resigned from the Qatari channel a year after joining its Beruit office, claiming "biased" reporting of the Syrian crisis, accusing the Qatari government of pushing Al Jazeera towards "media suicide".
On 9 March 2012, he announced his resignation on Twitter but didn't give reasons, but Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published a story about the resignation.
Ali Hashem was born to a family of Lebanese immigrants in the West African state of Sierra Leone.
The journalist's family immigrated to Sierra Leone in the early twenties of the 20th century.
Hashem has two brothers, Nour and Abdul Karim.
Ali resigned from AlJazeera in 2012 to join the newly established AlMayadeen.
In 2012 he announced his resignation from AlJazeera claiming later that the channel's agenda in Syria and Bahrain was the reason.
At AlMaydeen Ali played a vital role in building the channel's assignment desk during the launch period, and then he went back to the field, covering stories from Syria, Egypt, Gaza, Venezuela, Iraq, and Sierra Leone.
With Al Mayadeen, he was the Iran bureau chief, covering the nuclear talks during the presidency of Hasan Rouhani, the nuclear deal in Vienna where he was the only Arab journalist to interview Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the talks and after the announcement on 14 July 2015.
He covered the fall of Mosul and the emergence of ISIS in Iraq and produced an hour-long documentary on the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He wrote a biography of Al-Baghdadi for Al-Monitor and the Sunday Times that are referenced in several books on the subject.
In 2017, Ali announced that he'll be leaving AlMayadeen to return to the BBC Arabic.
Ali rejoined BBC Arabic in 2018 to become the channel's Iran affairs correspondent.
With BBC he broke the news on the assassination of Qassem Soleimani on 3 January 2020.