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Happy (lawless) birthday

byHabib Battah
Jun 12, 2014

The Lebanese police are celebrating their 153rd anniversary. At a commemoration event, the head of the force pledged…

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Keeping the hotels safe

byHabib Battah
Dec 18, 2013

I just spotted about 15 police officers at this new hotel opening near Raouche. There about four police…

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“Excellent” security meeting day before blast

byHabib Battah
Aug 23, 2013

Naharnet Just hours before today’s Tripoli bombing Nahrnet published a report quoting Lebanon’s interior minister as saying the…

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The rise of Rifi

byHabib Battah
May 23, 2013

Retired police chief Ashraf Rifi entered the spotlight today when he threw his support behind the fighters of…

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.