Hermel Archives | Beirut Report

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Defiance in Hermel

byHabib Battah
Feb 3, 2014

A day after the car bombing that killed four people in Hermel, Al Manar TV reported live from…

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The problem with connecting dots

byHabib Battah
Jan 16, 2014

Photo: The Daily Star Today’s apparent suicide attack that struck Hermel, a village where Hezbollah is popular, is…

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.