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RRule of Law

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Can Lebanese political parties be investigated for blasphemy too?

byHabib Battah
Jul 25, 2019

The Lebanese state (which literally cannot keep the streetlights on at night where hundreds die in highway collisions…

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Ain el Remmaneh

byHabib Battah
Aug 28, 2013

A few blocks away from where the civil war started in 1975. If only Jesus, bikinis and Iran…

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.