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Skiing with the IDF

byHabib Battah
Jan 13, 2015

Yesterday we set out for a fun day on the slopes. Thankfully, when we reached the peaks at…

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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…

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.