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Iraqi bling

byHabib Battah
Sep 26, 2014

I spotted this Rolls-Royce on a recent afternoon in Beirut. Interestingly, the plates are from Iraq. According to…

MMedia

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Ex-CIA director brushes off Afghan deaths

byHabib Battah
Oct 23, 2013

Following a report by human rights organizations condemning the secretive US drone war, CNN decided to bring on…

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Investing in Iraqi freedom

byHabib Battah
Mar 26, 2013

According to figures published by EuroNews, the US government has spent $1.7 trillion on its war in Iraq…

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.