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A minister on trial

byHabib Battah
Nov 2, 2013

It’s not every day that you get to see a Lebanese minister pleading his case in court. But…

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Defamation by Facebook share

byHabib Battah
May 9, 2013

Al Akhbar The former minister Charbel Nahhas is being sued by the head of supermarket chain Spinneys for…

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When will the fiber be ready?

byHabib Battah
May 8, 2013

Lebanon Slowly Glimpses Its Blazingly Fast Future By Habib Battah For several years now, successive Lebanese telecom ministers…

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Re-thinking domestic help in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Feb 12, 2013

Former Labor Minister Charbel Nahas spoke at the Nasawiya collective space last night on the evolution of Lebanon’s…

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.