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Meet The Four Martyrs Brigade

byHabib Battah
Aug 13, 2013

The newest miltia on the block took its name from the killing of four men in the Bekaa…

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News is back!

byHabib Battah
Aug 11, 2013

After a month-long hiatus during Ramadan–when soap operas reign supreme– Lebanese TV has reverted to its default mode…

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Shiite-nappers

byHabib Battah
Mar 2, 2013

Here’s a snapshot from an article published this week in Salon.You see the headline above, but they might…

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Kidnapping confusion

byHabib Battah
Feb 25, 2013

Here’s one for the ‘confusing’ file. The boy above was kidnapped last week but returned this morning under…

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.