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Ayn el Hilweh: It’s all here

byHabib Battah
Sep 20, 2013

I passed by this shop the other day in Ayn El Hilweh refugee camp, one of Lebanon’s poorest…

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Keeping Ramadan classy on MTV

byHabib Battah
Jul 13, 2013

Like most Christian-owned Lebanese broadcasters, MTV is fully embracing the Ramadan TV season, when dozens of new shows…

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Sons of guns

byHabib Battah
Nov 13, 2012

Among the many young men I saw on a recent trip to the mountains. The roads were literally…

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.