Hassan Satti is a Sudanese essayist and political analyst at the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper who is considered one of the most renowned Arab political commentators. He appears on various satellite networks, including Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya , where he comments on current developments in the Sudan and on topics in the Western media.

Satti's career of 37 years began in the 1970s, when he was the Sudanese correspondent for the Egyptian magazine Roz El-Yousuf and the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, and was intermittently stationed in Cairo. From the late 1970s until the mid 1980s, he served as Vice Editor-in-Chief, then Head of the Board of Directors and Editor-in-Chief of the Sudanese state-owned Al-Ayyam daily during the rule of President Jaafar Numeiri. He also hosted a famous TV program on Sudan TV, named "Al-Kursi Al-Sakhin" or the Hot Chair.

Following the coup that wrested power from Numeiri, Satti was removed from his post and forced to leave Sudan. He worked for a while in Saudi Arabia, then Egypt, until he finally settled down in London and became an opinion page editor for Asharq Al-Awsat .

Despite his long absence from the Sudan, Satti never stopped writing about the situation in his country and was critical of the rule of President Omar Al-Bashir. When he returned to Sudan on a short visit in 2005, the Sudanese Press and Publications Council called for his arrest along with 104 other Sudanese journalists who opposed the regime. Satti left the country before the regime could arrest him.

At the eve of the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Satti was one of the only prominent Arab analysts to predict the speedy fall of the Saddam regime, in contrast to the majority of Arab political analysts who fell for the regime's propaganda.

Satti has argued that Islam has been hijacked by terrorist leaders, and blames them for projecting an image of Islam in the West that is linked to terror. He has called for a clear condemnation of terrorism by Muslims, and for preaching pulpits in the Muslim world to be reserved for scholars who project what he considers the "true" tolerant image of the Islamic faith. He is also critical of Western media for presenting a distorted and superficial image of the Islamic faith.