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Let’s investigate Lebanon!

byHabib Battah
Jan 17, 2017

With environmental disasters and public service dysfunction everywhere you look, there’s never been a better time to investigate…

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Who has been attacking protestors in Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Sep 28, 2015

“Listen you f**ks,” the man wearing military style pants and boots yelled at dozens of young male and…

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.