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Lost in hysteria: the un-reported facts of Lebanon’s food scandal

byHabib Battah
Dec 29, 2014

The following column was first published in the December issue of Bold Magazine. By Habib Battah Who could…

RRule of Law

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Journalists and bloggers defy press crackdown

byHabib Battah
Apr 6, 2014

This column was first published in the April issue of Bold Magazine A Thirst For Silence By Habib Battah …

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Beirut Report on LBC News and elsewhere

byHabib Battah
May 16, 2013

My assault has also been covered by Al Akhbar L’Orient Le Jour: The Samir Kassir Foundation: And even…

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This war’s for you

byHabib Battah
Jul 20, 2008

Last week, a report in the Al Akbar newspaper indicated that the leader of Hezbollah, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah,…

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.