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The search for non-answers

byHabib Battah
Aug 15, 2013

No matter how illustrious their hand gestures, Lebanese politicians never seem to have any answers as to who…

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The problem with Lebanese crime scenes

byHabib Battah
Jul 9, 2013

It’s only been a few hours since today’s blast in Beirut and already the crime scene has become…

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.