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Top 10 weirdest Lebanese Christmas displays

byHabib Battah
Dec 21, 2014

I don’t usually do lists, but with all the awful news I have been covering lately about demolitions…

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Hezbollah TV’s special Christmas coverage

byHabib Battah
Dec 25, 2013

Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV usually covers church services today, but this Christmas seems to be one of the…

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.