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Flags of Our Fathers

byHabib Battah
Apr 13, 2015

The following column was published in last month’s issue of Bold Magazine. I thought it would be appropriate…

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The colonization of the frozen foods section has begun

byHabib Battah
May 6, 2014

It has also reached the aisles: Brace yourselves over the coming weeks when cars, shops and entire buildings…

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Where Iran and USA come together

byHabib Battah
Mar 26, 2013

The flags are actually attached by a string. And where else would this happen, but above a Kuwaiti-owned…

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Street colonizing and tambourine resistance

byHabib Battah
May 8, 2012

For the past few days, the highways and overpasses of East Beirut have been decked in the orange…

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.