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Ode to AUB

byHabib Battah
Feb 28, 2015

I don’t usually write poetry but here goes… The beautiful trees, the bountiful sky The occasional battleship passing…

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Lost in transliteration

byHabib Battah
Jan 5, 2015

In Arabic “جو” (pronounced jao or jaaw) means atmosphere or mood. Somehow it doesn’t convey the same ‘mood’…

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Is Lebanon high? Politicians joke about growing cannabis

byHabib Battah
Jan 3, 2015

Walid Joumblatt, one of the most powerful politicians in Lebanon, recently dropped the bombshell that he supports the…

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Facebook flip-flops on sale at Beirut supermarkets

byHabib Battah
Sep 4, 2014

Arab Spring or Arab Endless Summer? *** Related: Facebook design is definitely in this season.

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Parasite fashion?

byHabib Battah
Dec 20, 2013

Ain El Remmaneh

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.