mentally deficient." Hasan returned to this issue in August 2012 following criticism from the columnist Peter Hitchens, stating that "the entire 45-minute speech is primarily an attack on Muslim extremists who try and justify violence against non-Muslims on an 'ends justify the means' basis", but noted of his 2009 comments that his "phraseology was ill-judged, ill-advised and, even, inappropriate". Awards In January 2014, Hasan was awarded the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards. In 2017, he was named European Young Leader by the Brussels-based Friends of Europe think tank. In 2019, Hasan won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Online Column Writing. Selected works With James Macintyre. Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader, London, Biteback Publishing, 2011. Summer of Unrest: The Debt Delusion: Exposing ten Tory myths about debts, deficits and spending cuts, Vintage Digital, 28 July 2011. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking. Henry Holt and Co. 2023. ISBN 9781250853479 Notes References External links Hasan at the New Statesman Hasan on C-SPAN Mehdi Hasan at Al Jazeera English Mehdi Hasan on George H. W. Bush 1979 births 20th-century American journalists 20th-century Muslims 21st-century American male writers 21st-century British journalists 21st-century British male writers 21st-century Muslims Al Jazeera people Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford American Shia Muslims American male journalists American non-fiction writers American people of Indian descent British Shia Muslims British expatriates in the United States British male journalists British people of Indian descent HuffPost writers and columnists Living people MSNBC people Naturalized citizens of the United States People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood