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RRule of Law

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Private security confront police at Zaitunay Bay

byHabib Battah
Jul 25, 2015

Watch this private security man get right in the face of uniformed police officers. According to Al Jadeed,…

CCulture & Heritage

2 minute read

Building towers, destroying lives

byHabib Battah
Jun 12, 2014

It’s a good thing the woman who lives here was at work when her walls collapsed: Her living…

MMedia

2 minute read

Loving Lebanon?

byHabib Battah
Nov 18, 2013

Source The Kataeb party has been draping the highways in preparation for their annual event. The canvas reads:…

CCulture & Heritage

6 minute read

Getting physically assaulted today at District S site

byHabib Battah
May 14, 2013

My chest and wrists still hurt from the arms of the men who tackled me, twisted my hands…

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.