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Unpacking the Arab Tech Boom

byHabib Battah
May 13, 2014

The word entrepreneur has become ubiquitous in talk about the future of Arab business. Some have even claimed…

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Car surfing in Amman

byHabib Battah
Jan 24, 2014

We got to do a little bit of walking while in Amman this week during the Global Voices…

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Jordan’s internet up to 250 times faster than Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jan 23, 2014

I’m in Jordan this week for the action-packed annual Arab bloggers conference organized by Global Voices Online. Needless…

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Politically correct flightpath

byHabib Battah
May 7, 2013

From my Royal Jordanian flight home yesterday.

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.