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Journalists and bloggers defy press crackdown

byHabib Battah
Apr 6, 2014

This column was first published in the April issue of Bold Magazine A Thirst For Silence By Habib Battah …

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Beware of falling objects

byHabib Battah
Oct 9, 2013

I awoke yesterday to a frantic call from the nearby butcher. “Your car has been hit, come get…

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.