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Venice? No, it’s all in Lebanon!

byHabib Battah
Dec 13, 2016

Have you ever been to Lake Naccache? It’s so romantic with restaurants right on the waterfront. But strangely,…

CCrime

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Above the law: Top 20 illegal election posters

byHabib Battah
May 6, 2016

An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen…

RRule of Law

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New and old ways of practicing Lebanese politics

byHabib Battah
Apr 29, 2016

In a space of a few hours, one can witness two radically different visions for Beirut’s future. On…

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Municipal work? Start a fire

byHabib Battah
Aug 9, 2014

The municipality of a certain village was forced to call the fire department this week for a fire…

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.