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Can the private sector help the Syrian refugee crisis?

byHabib Battah
Jan 5, 2015

Today I spoke to the BBC World Service about the worsening refugee crisis in Lebanon and the…

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Why Turkish soaps work

byHabib Battah
Jul 7, 2013

Latin American soap operas like this one used to dominate Arab airwaves. But they are increasingly eclipsed by…

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.