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Hamra night sweeps?

byHabib Battah
Jun 1, 2013

At around 3AM this morning, not far from this intersection on a dark Hamra street, I noticed a…

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Fake bomb detectors in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Apr 23, 2013

Daily Star UK authorities have arrested the man who made millions off of selling these fake bomb detectors.…

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.