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Mystery terrorism

byHabib Battah
May 26, 2013

The Independent Will we ever know who fired rockets at Southern Beirut this morning? If recent history is any…

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Has the FBI ever been to Lebanon?

byHabib Battah
Oct 23, 2012

Yesterday the State Department said the FBI would be sending over a team to help investigate the car…

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.