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Jamil Al Sayyed and the Marshall Islands

byHabib Battah
Feb 16, 2014

Jamil Al Sayyed The Marshall Islands Earlier this week, The Marshall Islands reportedly nominated veteran Lebanese spymaster Jamil Al…

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If these walls could talk

byHabib Battah
Sep 5, 2013

Oops, looks like they already do. This is a screenshot from a recent OTV interview with former security…

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.