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RRule of Law

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Texting and driving… a bus

byHabib Battah
Apr 30, 2014

Watch the video below as this bus driver barely looks at the highway while texting for almost 20…

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Jumeriah Beach, Hamra

byHabib Battah
Nov 25, 2013

This guy seems a little bit far from home. Also don’t miss the ode to St. Charbel in…

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Audience logistics

byHabib Battah
Feb 15, 2013

I watched yesterday, as I have done so many times before, while busloads of supporters arrived for 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.