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Khoury’s “thin” home

byHabib Battah
Feb 14, 2014

Source: Facebook As I tried to argue in my last post, there are many priorities in Lebanon, but…

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Boobs over sport. Is Jackie really a hero?

byHabib Battah
Feb 12, 2014

Lebanese skier posed nude on the public slopes for photographer Prince Hubertus. By now everyone has heard of…

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.