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Jordan’s internet up to 250 times faster than Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jan 23, 2014

I’m in Jordan this week for the action-packed annual Arab bloggers conference organized by Global Voices Online. Needless…

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13 hours to download Skype

byHabib Battah
May 8, 2013

Six years ago, Lebanon’s telecom minister promised that the country would enter the knowledge economy “through the front…

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Run out of internet? Try the park

byHabib Battah
Apr 15, 2013

Like many Lebanese, I’m already out of internet this month (yes that is possible) which means I’m charged…

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.