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Apologies from Lebanese restaurants

byHabib Battah
Nov 14, 2013

The Lebanese restaurant chain Casper & Gambini’s has apologized for its habit of short-changing customers and has assured…

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Short-changing souks

byHabib Battah
Nov 13, 2013

Lebanon is already an expensive place to eat out, so the routine habit of short-changing customers only adds…

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.