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Happy Valentine’s Day from the IDF (Live Updates)

byHabib Battah
Feb 14, 2013

UPDATE (3 minutes later): Round two- tighter formation: And 5 minutes later–round 3: About 20 minutes later (12:15PM),…

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Israeli jets over Laklouk

byHabib Battah
Feb 3, 2013

The Israeli overflights continued all night and all day yesterday, visible over the mountains of Laklouk ski resort,…

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You heard it here first

byHabib Battah
Jan 30, 2013

Israeli jets over Beirut yesterday, hours before the convoy attack So it seems those Israeli jets I’ve been…

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Today’s forecast

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2013

Sunny and gorgeous over the Mediterranean with a 90 percent chance of F16 intimidation. * * * Update:…

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.