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Celebrating Sleiman

byHabib Battah
May 24, 2014

Lebanese president Michel Sleiman left office today, but his presidency will linger a while longer in billboards erected…

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Whitewashing Mandela

byHabib Battah
Dec 6, 2013

Image: Daily Hearld You probably won’t see a lot of this picture or others in non-stop TV coverage of…

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.