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Bodyguard still free after hit-and-run attack

byHabib Battah
Jul 18, 2013

The parliamentary bodyguard who drove his car into activists last month (video) is still free, as the prosecuting…

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Quoted in the Wall Street Journal

byHabib Battah
Jul 4, 2013

I know it is not Egypt, but taking on a police station until captives were freed and naming…

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Naming and shaming at the Ministry of Justice

byHabib Battah
Jul 1, 2013

Friends and supporters of a hit-and-run victim hung pictures of the driver–a Lebanese security agent– on the walls…

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.