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Inspired by Michael Moore, Lebanese journalists use bullhorn and pay price

byHabib Battah
Nov 27, 2013

The Al Jadeed journalists who were brutally beaten and detained by Lebanese customs agents have just published the video…

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Al Jadeed journalists freed

byHabib Battah
Nov 26, 2013

That’s Riad Kobessi, an investigative journalist and one of three Al Jadeed TV crew members who were savagely…

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.