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The misguided Beast

byHabib Battah
Mar 13, 2014

So by now you have heard that “The Daily Beast” has rated Lebanon the worst place in the…

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Lebanon among “least peaceful” places

byHabib Battah
Apr 11, 2013

The interactive website www.peacefulcountries.com which has just been nominated for a prestigious Webby Award, aims to show viewers how “peaceful”…

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.