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Dead president for president

byHabib Battah
Apr 23, 2014

That’s former president Fuad Chehab (died 1973) up for reelection in the upcoming presidential race, according to these…

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Want to run for office? That’ll be 5,000 bucks.

byHabib Battah
Apr 24, 2013

Tajaddod Youth Ever see those movies were the average joe runs for office and wins? Well that’s not…

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.