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Valentine’s preparations

byHabib Battah
Feb 6, 2014

“I love you 1 extra degree” Think that’s weird? Check out the phallic Valentine wears at this Beirut…

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Parasite fashion?

byHabib Battah
Dec 20, 2013

Ain El Remmaneh

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“Persons in clothes will be asked to leave”

byHabib Battah
Nov 24, 2013

Sporting Club, El Manara, Beirut UPDATE Nov 25: A debate about this post has emerged on my Facebook…

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.