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Hacking the Saudi narrative, Lebanese style

byHabib Battah
Nov 15, 2017

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. I’m not a fan of quoting cliches, but in…

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US flight from Tel Aviv diverted over Beirut

byHabib Battah
Oct 30, 2017

An unusually loud rumbling was heard over Lebanon early this morning. Having grown up with Israeli jets buzzing…

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Top 7 ‘fake news’ stories on CNN

byHabib Battah
Dec 30, 2016

Ah “fake news” and the “post truth” era: the demise of the world as we know it through…

Who Am I?

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.