Wajahat Ali
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| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | University of Berkley |
Wajahat Ali is a correspondent and contributor for the New York Times, CNN, a playwright, and a lawyer.[1] Ali also works for the Huffington Post, and was a host for Al Jazeera America's The Stream [2] He is additionally a Post 9/11 activist. [3]
Personal life
Ali is Muslim American of Pakistani descent.[4] Ali grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of Berkley, where he earned a degree in English. [5] Ali's parents were arrested in 2002 (following 9/11) as a result of the FBI Sweep called Operation Cyberstorm. [5] Ali is married to his wife and has three children. [6] His daughter recovered from stage 4, liver cancer. [7]
Author and playwright
He wrote the play The Domestic Crusaders about a Pakistani-American Muslim family. It premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2005 and later made its Off-Broadway premiere at the Nuyorican Poets Café on September 11, 2009.
Ali was an editor on "All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim", a collection of personal essays by 45 men about being Muslim in America, published in 2012.[8]
Ali authored the 2022 memoir Go Back to Where You Came From[9]
Politics
In January 2020, Ali appeared alongside CNN anchor Don Lemon and Rick Wilson (political consultant) to discuss United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's recent exchange with an NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly. During this segment, Wilson made comments towards Trump supporters, stating they were "part of the credulous boomer rube demo." He also employed the tone of Southern American English in the segment for emphasis.[10] Ali has questioned the new twitter board in regards to its diversity. [11] Ali also questioned the removal of Tiffany Cross from MSNBC with the tweet, "“Tucker Carlson hits Tiffany Cross recently and accuses her for fueling a ‘race war.’ She get deluged with hate and criticism. Now? She’s out at MSNBC. Contract not renewed. Timing is terrible,"[12]
References
- ↑ "Wajahat Ali". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Wajahat Ali". The Daily Beast.
- ↑ "Wajahat Ali on being American with an asterisk".
- ↑ "Wajahat Ali".
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Wajahat Ali on humor, identity and finding the 'Amreekan' dream". NBC News.
- ↑ Bailey, Sarah Pulliam (11 February 2022). "Wajahat Ali on being a Muslim son of immigrants: 'Having hope is an act.'". The Washington Post.
- ↑ "'I've tried to invest in joy': Wajahat Ali on traumas physical, political and global". Los Angeles Times. 24 January 2022.
- ↑ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-935952-59-6
- ↑ Bhatt, Jenny (25 January 2022). "Wajahat Ali's 'Go Back to Where You Came From' is biting and funny and full of heart". NPR.
- ↑ "CNN's Don Lemon Cracks Up As Rick Wilson, Wajahat Ali Trash Trump Supporters As Ignorant Rubes". realclearpolitics.com. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
- ↑ ""No One is Going to Kill Twitter Except Elon": As Musk's Blue Bird Reels, the Arms Race for an Alternative is on". Vanity Fair. 2 December 2022.
- ↑ Ellison, Sarah (4 November 2022). "MSNBC severs ties with host Tiffany Cross". The Washington Post.
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