Broadcasting revolution: Waterloo talk

byHabib Battah
Jun 13, 2012

So I’ve left the chaos of Beirut (briefly) for the land of idyllic maple trees to speak about Arab media, new and old, at an event sponsored by Waterloo University’s Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Center for International Governance Innovation. My talk, “Broadcasting Revolution: How media have influenced the Arab uprisings” will take place tomorrow evening. Please stop by if you are in the neighborhood or tune into the link for a live webcast.

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 15 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.