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Blackface on Kuwait TV

byHabib Battah
Feb 12, 2015

It’s sad to see that the racist tradition of Blackface is still alive and well on Kuwait TV.…

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Lebanon’s failure to fund a crisis

byHabib Battah
Dec 9, 2013

This piece was originally published in the December issue of Bold Magazine. Aid: Lebanon’s Mission Impossible IT HAS BEEN…

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Where Iran and USA come together

byHabib Battah
Mar 26, 2013

The flags are actually attached by a string. And where else would this happen, but above a Kuwaiti-owned…

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School funding

byHabib Battah
Mar 1, 2013

A huge dig is underway on Sidani street in Hamra, next to Marrouche restaurant. As seen above, the…

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.