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888 minutes left to upload your video

byHabib Battah
Aug 2, 2013

I’ve been uploading this 1 minute 24 second video since last night. That’s over 12 hours and it…

IInternet

2 minute read

Whose telecom is it?

byHabib Battah
May 9, 2013

Telecom minister Nicolas Sehnaoui is in the news every day it seems, either launching new initiatives or defending…

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7 minute read

When will the fiber be ready?

byHabib Battah
May 8, 2013

Lebanon Slowly Glimpses Its Blazingly Fast Future By Habib Battah For several years now, successive Lebanese telecom ministers…

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.