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Flags of Our Fathers

byHabib Battah
Apr 13, 2015

The following column was published in last month’s issue of Bold Magazine. I thought it would be appropriate…

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Loving Lebanon?

byHabib Battah
Nov 18, 2013

Source The Kataeb party has been draping the highways in preparation for their annual event. The canvas reads:…

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.