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Municipal work? Start a fire

byHabib Battah
Aug 9, 2014

The municipality of a certain village was forced to call the fire department this week for a fire…

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Tense streets in Kaskas, Beirut

byHabib Battah
Jun 24, 2013

Just got back from the KasKas neighborhood in Beirut near the entrance to Shatila refugee camp. APCs lined…

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What fire? Local news didn’t see it.

byHabib Battah
Apr 27, 2012

(*Update below) As I type this, an Armageddon-shaped black cloud of smoke hangs over Beirut, caused by a…

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.