Waleed Aly
| Waleed Aly | |
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Aly in 2010
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| Born |
15 August 1978 Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Wesley College |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation | Author, journalist, newspaper columnist, radio and television presenter, lawyer, academic, guitarist, songwriter |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Television | The Project |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Carland |
| Children | 2 |
Waleed Aly (born 15 August 1978) is an Australian writer, academic, lawyer, media presenter and musician. Aly is a co-host of Network Ten's news and current affairs television program The Project, he writes for Fairfax Media, and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University working in their Global Terrorism Research Centre. In 2016, he won the Gold Logie Award for Best Personality on Australian Television.
Aly was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Egyptian parents. He is a Sunni Muslim and was educated at Wesley College. He completed the International Baccalaureate at Wesley in 1996, and then studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Bachelor of Laws (with honours) degrees in 2002.
After graduating, Aly worked as an associate to Family Court judge Joseph Kay and, until, 2007 worked as a solicitor in Melbourne for Maddocks Lawyers. In 2006, he was a pro bono lawyer with the Human Rights Law Centre, on secondment from Maddocks. Aly published People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West in 2007. In 2008, he was selected to participate in the Australia 2020 Summit.
Aly is a staff member of the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University and says that most of the conflicts in the Middle East can be traced to the arbitrary way in which its territories were divided-up by Western powers by the ongoing demand for Middle Eastern oil and more recently by factors such as the invasion of Iraq. After the Boston Marathon bombings, describing terrorism as a "perpetual irritant", he said it is encouraging that we are finally maturing in the way we handle terrorism.
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