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Refugee Nation: Lebanon fails to cope with population influx

byHabib Battah
Oct 13, 2013

Here is a copy of my article and photo-essay for this month’s Al Jazeera’s digital magazine, available…

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Investing in Iraqi freedom

byHabib Battah
Mar 26, 2013

According to figures published by EuroNews, the US government has spent $1.7 trillion on its war in Iraq…

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Amin Maalouf: a writer’s bedroom

byHabib Battah
Nov 11, 2012

There is no news about plans to demolish author Amin Maalouf’s former Badaro apartment, covered on this blog…

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.