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Happy General Security day

byHabib Battah
Aug 31, 2013

A video montage featuring the head of General Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim was airing on LBC sister…

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“Excellent” security meeting day before blast

byHabib Battah
Aug 23, 2013

Naharnet Just hours before today’s Tripoli bombing Nahrnet published a report quoting Lebanon’s interior minister as saying the…

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.