Beirut Report on CNN

byHabib Battah
Sep 10, 2009

Here’s CNN’s broadcast of the video I shot of Snoop in Beirut.

My piece begins airing at about 3:00 minutes.

UPDATE: The article that goes with the video has just been uploaded on CNN’s site, here.

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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.

3 comments

angie nader says:

Sep 10, 2009 at 9:19 am

what an adventure!
it looks like you had a lot of fun, and your segmant on cnn will help other artists consider comming to Lebanon!

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Habib Battah says:

Sep 10, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Thanks Angie! it was fun–actually really hard to keep the camera steady when rocking to Snoop during the concert! Snoop said he was sure a lot of hip hop artists would follow him.

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Shmueli says:

Sep 11, 2009 at 4:26 pm

Hey Habib,

Thanks for showing me the other side of Lebanon.

I wish we could have peace as soon as possible between our countries..

Peace and Love,

Samuel from Israel.

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