Al Hurra Archives | Beirut Report

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Can Nasrallah help RT’s low ratings?

byHabib Battah
Apr 18, 2012

Saving scoop? Hezbollah’s leader interviewed by RT Though they may have landed the year’s biggest scoop by interviewing…

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What Murdoch is really doing in the Middle East

byHabib Battah
Apr 7, 2012

Here’s a copy of my cover story for the inaugural issue of Bold magazine: By Habib Battah Under…

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.