Ali Hashem is a columnist for Al-Monitor and BBC Arabic's bilingual Iran affairs correspondent.
Ali previously served as Al Mayadeen news network's chief correspondent.
Until March 2012, he was Al Jazeera's war correspondent, and prior to that he was a senior journalist at the BBC.
He has written for several international Institute's and media outlets, such as the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Middle East Institute, the Century Foundation, Carnegie, among others.
In the Arab world Ali wrote for Lebanese daily As Safir, the Egyptian dailies Al-Masry Al-Youm and Aldostor and the Jordanian daily Alghad.
Hashem resigned from the Qatari channel only one year after joining its office in Beirut in protest over "bias" reporting of the Syrian crisis, accusing the Qatari government of pushing Al Jazeera towards "media suicide".On March 9, 2012, he announced his resignation on Twitter but didn't give reasons, but Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published a story about the resignation.