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Tragedy and Patriotism

byHabib Battah
Apr 20, 2013

The American flag has figured prominently in the coverage of the murderous Boston explosions. Similar to the September…

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Itching for a Middle East connection

byHabib Battah
Apr 16, 2013

Fox News showed this image repeatedly tonight during its coverage of the Boston bombings. And what do these…

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.