Mohamed Hassan is an award-winning writer, journalist and poet from Auckland and Cairo. His first collection of poetry, A Felling Of Things, was released in 2016, and his latest collection National Anthem was published by Dead Bird Books and is long-listed for the Ockham National Book Awards in 2021. His new essay collection, How to be a Bad Muslim, is published by Penguin Random House in 2022.

As a journalist, Mohamed covered ethnic affairs for RNZ, investigating counterterrorism,  workplace discrimination and Islamophobia. In 2017 he was awarded the Gold Trophy at the New York Radio Awards for his podcast series Public Enemy on the impacts of social and security policies on Muslim communities in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. His 2020 series, The Guest House, tackled community grief following the Christchurch terror attacks.