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Getting access to information in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Nov 7, 2014

How hard is it to get information from the Lebanese government? The answer may surprise you. I…

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About those traffic lights

byHabib Battah
Aug 21, 2013

If you’ve been driving around the suburbs of Beirut lately, you may have noticed most of the traffic…

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.