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New Year’s Eve message from the Lebanese police

byHabib Battah
Dec 31, 2013

Lebanon’s Interior Minister, Marwan Charbel, has just appeared in a live television conference, assuring citizens that “the streets…

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What does the Ministry of Tourism do?

byHabib Battah
Jul 5, 2013

I have to admit, the Ministry’s latest ad is probably their best production yet. It doesn’t try too…

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Pomp and flag-hanging: Abbas visits

byHabib Battah
Jul 3, 2013

Yesterday, cranes and workers were hard at work scrubbing the sidewalks and hanging up flags all across the…

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.