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Unpacking the Arab Tech Boom

byHabib Battah
May 13, 2014

The word entrepreneur has become ubiquitous in talk about the future of Arab business. Some have even claimed…

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TechCrunch awards Lebanese Startups

byHabib Battah
Mar 4, 2014

Four Lebanese startups won awards handed out by TechCrunch, one of the world’s biggest technology sites, at a…

CCulture & Heritage

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We once made trains

byHabib Battah
Sep 14, 2013

Did you know Lebanon has over 100 years of locomotive history? Neither did I and that’s why I’m…

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.