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What Panama and Lebanon have in common

byHabib Battah
Mar 18, 2013

I’m half-way across the world but the parallels to home are everywhere here in Panama. Like Lebanon, Panama…

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Hamra exposed

byHabib Battah
Feb 23, 2013

Store front mannequin, on Hamra street. Not some side street, the main Hamra street, where kids walk by…

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Popular sentiment

byHabib Battah
Apr 26, 2008

This spray painted wall says a lot about what many Lebanese think of the poster/billboard war that is…

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.