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EEnvironment & Public Space

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Municipality without a website or public budget

byHabib Battah
Apr 1, 2014

Yes that’s right, Beirut a city with over a million residents and among the most influential in the…

RRule of Law

4 minute read

Who needs change? Lebanon’s youth parties waive off reform

byHabib Battah
Aug 10, 2013

For decades, Lebanese politics has been ruled by a small group of men. So why not get some…

PPublic Services

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How much money does Beirut municipality have?

byHabib Battah
Jun 13, 2013

Daily Star Plenty according to Walid Jumblat, who responded to the uproar this week over the municipality’s multiple…

Who Am I?

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.