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Tex Arabia

byHabib Battah
Jul 13, 2014

If I were in Beirut right now, I’d probably be hearing the sound of Israeli jets as they…

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Best shawarma this side of Damascus

byHabib Battah
Oct 2, 2013

Apparently Syrians used to drive for miles just to eat here, and now Al Farouk, one of the…

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Why you’re lucky to have walls

byHabib Battah
Sep 22, 2013

Last week I visited a few of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians living in tents across Lebanon…

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Bringing the occupation to Manhattan

byHabib Battah
Jun 26, 2012

Here’s a photo of the cast bowing at the last performance of “Food and Fadwa” which I was…

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.