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The bomber’s magic ID card

byHabib Battah
Jan 5, 2014

Photo: Now Lebanon The partially burnt ID papers allegedly belonging to a suicide bomber have emerged as the…

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“Not even an ant could pass without having his ID checked”

byHabib Battah
Jan 2, 2014

Those were the words of this survivor interviewed by Al Jadeed TV in the hospital this evening. 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.