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Top 10 weirdest Lebanese Christmas displays

byHabib Battah
Dec 21, 2014

I don’t usually do lists, but with all the awful news I have been covering lately about demolitions…

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ABC: Christmas charity or profit?

byHabib Battah
Dec 23, 2013

There are few places more beautifully decorated this season than ABC Ashrafieh, one of Lebanon’s fanciest malls, whose…

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Hollywood aims at N. Korea but doesn’t forget us

byHabib Battah
Apr 5, 2013

I have to admit, I had an inkling of what I was getting into when I bought tickets…

Who Am I?

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.