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Independence ‘ 13: Keeping up the facade

byHabib Battah
Nov 22, 2013

Their hands were outstretched as every year. The president, parliament speaker and prime minister received congratulations from all…

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Accountability and the new 50K

byHabib Battah
Nov 15, 2013

In the video above, our central bank governor Riad Salameh defends the misprint on our new 50K bill,…

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.