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Who’s got your data?

byHabib Battah
Jul 13, 2015

Following my interrogation by Hezbollah last month, I was left wondering what data they may have been able…

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Fiber on the way?

byHabib Battah
Mar 12, 2015

Late last year I noticed a couple of technicians from Ogero– the state agency that runs the country’s…

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.