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On Hard Rock and other restaurant analyses

byHabib Battah
Oct 22, 2013

Here’s a copy of my monthly column in Bold Magazine. The Day Good Journalism DiedWORD THAT BEIRUT’S HARD ROCK…

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Best shawarma this side of Damascus

byHabib Battah
Oct 2, 2013

Apparently Syrians used to drive for miles just to eat here, and now Al Farouk, one of the…

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.