Today’s forecast

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2013

Sunny and gorgeous over the Mediterranean with a 90 percent chance of F16 intimidation.

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Update:

A reader just sent me this shot from a couple of days ago:

Guess those IAF pilots are really enjoying our sunny weather! But what are they up to?

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.