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Lebanon’s first expatriate voters show true colors

byHabib Battah
Apr 29, 2018

There is a fantasy among many in Lebanon- liberals in particular– that a silent majority of Lebanese do…

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What does the Ministry of Tourism do?

byHabib Battah
Jul 5, 2013

I have to admit, the Ministry’s latest ad is probably their best production yet. It doesn’t try too…

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What Panama and Lebanon have in common

byHabib Battah
Mar 18, 2013

I’m half-way across the world but the parallels to home are everywhere here in Panama. Like Lebanon, Panama…

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.