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Brown spills of Khalde

byHabib Battah
Jan 27, 2014

In addition to the landfill crisis on Beirut’s streets–covered on this blog yesterday— there appears to be a heavy dose…

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Jordan airport internet

byHabib Battah
May 6, 2013

This is a speed test from the free wifi zone at Amman airport, provided by ISP Zain. Let’s…

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Will we ever see this in Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Mar 7, 2013

London Heathrow Airport, last night.

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.