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Between Sukleen and takfir: a warm welcome home

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2014

Hamra last Saturday When I got in a cab after landing in Beirut this weekend, my first question…

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Car surfing in Amman

byHabib Battah
Jan 24, 2014

We got to do a little bit of walking while in Amman this week during the Global Voices…

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.