Who Is Wajahat Ali? His Wikipedia Details, Parents, Net Worth, & Married Life

Wajahat Ali is a famous writer and speaker and is the op-ed for the New York Times and was a regular guest on cable news and radio to discuss politics, religion, foreign policy, and culture.

Who Is Wajahat Ali? Wikipedia & Parents Details

Wajahat Ali (born on 1 November 1980, age: 42 years old) is a well-known journalist, writer, lawyer, award-winning playwright, and TV host, along with a consultant for the US State Department. In addition to that, he is most famous for How to Fix a Primary (2020), The Secret Life of Muslims (2016), and CBS This Morning (1992). However, he is yet to have a Wikipedia page.

Despite being active on social media platforms, he rarely talks about his private life and has stayed low when it comes to his personal affairs. Moreover, he was born to his Pakastani immigrant parents in California. As a result, the information about his parents is not present on any of the internet sites or in research data. At the same time, his father owned a software-resale business. Not only that but the data related to his siblings is also yet to be unraveled to the world. Moreover, it is also not known whether he is the only child of his parents or if he has other siblings with whom he grew up together.

Wajahat Ali celebrates his birthday on 1 November every year with his family and friends. Moreover, he was born on 1 November 1980, which makes her 42 years old as of the present. Along with that, he has Scorpio as his zodiac or star sign. Wajahat was born and raised in San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States, which means that he holds Pakistani-American nationality. Further, he is part of a South Asian ethnic group and follows Islam as his religion. 

Additionally, talking about his physical appearance, he stands tall with a height above average, which is measured to be around 6 feet and 2 inches, and a decent weight. As for his educational background, he went to Bellarmine College Preparatory and graduated in 1998. After that, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated, taking the English language as his major subject. Then later, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, and got his BA in English (Dean's List Honors). Along with that, he also studied at the University of California, Davis - School of Law for three years, from 2004 to 2007.

Wajahat Ali is present on Twitter and Facebook, which he uses for his overall social media activities. Moreover, he is active on Twitter with the name as Wajahat Ali along with the Twitter handle as @WajahatAli. Furthermore, he has a verified account on Twitter which was opened back in February 2009. Similarly, he has over 323.2K Followers with more than 183.9k tweets on his Twitter account. Likewise, he is also seen active on Facebook with the same name as his other social media account, which being Wajahat Ali which he opened back in December 2006.

Wahajat Ali Wiki Details

Wahajat Ali Married Life

Wajahat Ali is a married man who committed to his current wife, Sarah Kureshi, who is said to be his long-time college girlfriend and has dated for many years. Sarah Kureshi is a physician and human right advocate, and other than that, there is nothing known about her as well. Even the date of their marriage and the early stage of their dating and married life is yet to be updated.

However, the couple is happily together and is blessed with three children where one of them is a boy, and the other is a girl. Their son's name is Ibrahim, and they have kept their daughter's name as Nusayba.

Wahajat Ali Net Worth & Career Insights

Wahajat Ali has a successful career with an estimated net worth of around $1 million as of current. As a columnist at The Daily Beast, he makes an average salary of $60,309 per year.

He is working as Columnist, The Daily Beast at The Daily Beast, along with being a Consultant: Media & Storytelling Training, Leadership Development & Community Outreach at PEN America. Before that, he used to work at altmuslim as Associate Editor, Playwright, at McSweeney's as The Domestic Crusaders, Researcher, and as Writer at the Center for American Progress.

Aside from that, he was also a Solo Attorney for the Law Offices of Wajahat Ali, Co-Host and Digital Producer, The Stream, Al Jazeera America for Al Jazeera Media Network, and was the Creative Director at Affinis Labs.

Apart from that, he was Host/Contributor at The Huffington Post for a year and two months and later joined CNN as CNN Contributor for a year and a month. After that, he became part of The New York Times as Contributing Opinion Writer and worked there for three years and 10 months total. Similarly, he has also produced two series named How to Fix a Primary and The Secret Life of Muslims.