UpFront

UpFront
Presented by	Mehdi Hasan
Country of origin	United States
Production
Production location	Washington D.C.
Running time	1 hour
Original release
Network	Al Jazeera English
Release	September 2015 (2015-09)

UpFront is a current affairs magazine discussion, debate and analysis programme on Al Jazeera English hosted by Mehdi Hasan. The show premiered on 4 September 2015 shortly after Al Jazeera moved into their new Washington D.C. hub. The show has a politics focus although other subjects are broached such as religion, economics, development and government activities.

The show aims to “cut through the headlines” and “challenge conventional wisdom”, focusing on a range of topics from politics, economics, development, religion and government activities.

The show is weekly and premieres new episodes on Fridays.

Format

The programme is centred around current affairs with each episode dedicated to one or two topics. Typically each episode contains a Headliner segment, a one-on-one interview, and a debate segment called the Arena.

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Notable Guests

The premiere episode featured an interview with Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency leaks.

• Noam Chomsky
• Dilma Rousseff
• Muhammadu Buhari
• Julia Gillard
• Shashi Tharoor
• Naomi Klein
• Hamid Karzai
• Muhammad Yunus
• Mahathir Mohamad
• Reza Aslan
• Lawrence Krauss
• Michael Moore
• Hina Rabbani Khar
• Mark Kimmitt
• Stephen Pinker
• Sadiq Khan
• Mikheil Saakashvili
• Tzipi Hotovely
• Linda Sarsour
• Glenn Greenwald
• Yousef Munayyer
• Michael Flynn
• Michael Hayden
• Danny Ayalon
• John Sipher
• Jamal Khashoggi
• Ali Shihabi
• Maryam al-Khawaja
• Lambert Mende
• Imran Khan
• Anders Fogh Rasmussen
• Yanis Varoufakis
• Alan Peter Cayetano
• Raila Odinga
• Mehmet Simsek
• Jill Stein
• Vicente Fox

External links

Official Website