Grand Serail Archives | Beirut Report

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Protestors pelt MPs with tomatoes: in pictures

byHabib Battah
May 31, 2013

In defiance of parliament’s decision to renew its term this afternoon– and thus delay elections for over a…

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Keeping up the pressure

byHabib Battah
May 18, 2013

Some civil society groups are up in arms over the government’s failure to recognize what many deem to…

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Workers march to the Prime Ministry

byHabib Battah
Feb 27, 2013

The streets of Barbir overflowed with thousands of protestors today, demanding higher wages and an end to corruption…

Lebanese spring?

byHabib Battah
Feb 26, 2013

Thousands of school teachers and public sector employees took to the streets across Lebanon today, demanding wage increases.…

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.