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Highway closed for no reason?

byHabib Battah
Nov 17, 2016

For no clear reason, a major highway was closed during morning rush hour today. Police officers and vehicles…

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Sidewalk politics

byHabib Battah
May 1, 2013

To the untrained eye, this may look like a colossal failure in civil engineering. But this strange double…

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Beirut private parking basics

byHabib Battah
Apr 28, 2013

Simple: Recycled: Discreet: Permanent: Easy access chain: Manned: Innocent: Camouflage:

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.