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How did Minister Bassil acquire $22M of real estate?

byHabib Battah
Nov 3, 2015

Lebanese broadcaster LBC has just released a fascinating report detailing the curious and multi-million dollar real estate holdings…

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Journalists and bloggers defy press crackdown

byHabib Battah
Apr 6, 2014

This column was first published in the April issue of Bold Magazine A Thirst For Silence By Habib Battah …

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Hanging political currency

byHabib Battah
Aug 1, 2013

Originally published in Bold Magazine By Habib Battah Not long after our new prime minister Tammam Salam took…

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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…

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Who needs hover boards….

byHabib Battah
Mar 28, 2013

Wired.com While the film “Back to the Future II” promised the futuristic floating skateboards would be the norm by 2015……

Who Am I?

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.