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“Beirut-ing” or BS-ing?

byHabib Battah
Mar 18, 2014

The photo above was posted on the site “Beirut-ing,” a very popular local events site. The headline: “Snow…

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Best Buy in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jan 28, 2014

I saw this place in Mansourieh recently– that’s the hills above Beirut. Interestingly the massive American electronics store’s website…

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MTV Lebanon: powered by Wikipedia

byHabib Battah
Jul 26, 2013

MTV There’s a lot of excitement in the Lebanese press about a reported Nile crocodile sighting in Beirut…

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Hamra night sweeps?

byHabib Battah
Jun 1, 2013

At around 3AM this morning, not far from this intersection on a dark Hamra street, I noticed a…

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Fake bomb detectors in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Apr 23, 2013

Daily Star UK authorities have arrested the man who made millions off of selling these fake bomb detectors.…

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.