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Beirut heritage activist receives French medal of honor

byHabib Battah
Jan 18, 2015

Preserving heritage is not usually a very acceptable activity in Beirut. Activists are routinely harassed for documenting it–sometimes…

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Police stand down at Boutros road protest

byHabib Battah
Mar 2, 2014

Here’s a chronology of one of two protests in Mar Mikhael this weekend to demand a park instead…

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Protestors pelt MPs with tomatoes: in pictures

byHabib Battah
May 31, 2013

In defiance of parliament’s decision to renew its term this afternoon– and thus delay elections for over a…

Who Am I?

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.