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Accountability and the new 50K

byHabib Battah
Nov 15, 2013

In the video above, our central bank governor Riad Salameh defends the misprint on our new 50K bill,…

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“We are not taking Syrian money.”

byHabib Battah
Jun 17, 2013

So said a currency exchange dealer on Hamra street. I heard him say it to four Syrians that…

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.