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Video: Security agents try to run over protestors

byHabib Battah
Jun 29, 2013

I witnessed this scene earlier this afternoon as protestors were trying to occupy the street. The young woman…

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Swamp for lease

byHabib Battah
Feb 26, 2013

This green festering sewage pit can be found off the main road in scenic Gemmayze. Good news: It’s…

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.