Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) honored Mehdi Hasan with the 2024 Integrity Award at their annual gala on Wednesday, October 2, at the National Press Club in Washington DC. Mehdi received the award alongside renowned British-Palestinian surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who joined the gala remotely from Lebanon.
Mehdi’s award was presented by none other than his former colleague and MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, who took the trouble of calculating how many tweets Mehdi had tweeted since joining Twitter in 2010 (it turns out that Mehdi has posted an average of 1.5 tweets per hour, every single hour of every single day for 15 years!), but also praised Mehdi and Zeteo’s bold and much-needed accountability journalism.
Mehdi himself gave a moving acceptance speech that we wanted to share first, and in full, with Zeteo subscribers. You can watch the video of it above……more
