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Not your average citizen: Rafik Hariri’s neoliberal Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Nov 20, 2017

With tensions between Lebanon and GCC countries rising everyday, it is essential to examine how Lebanon’s economy has…

EEnvironment & Public Space

6 minute read

The violent face of real estate development in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jun 30, 2017

An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country’s…

EEnvironment & Public Space

3 minute read

Can Seal help ‘legalize’ public performance in Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Dec 15, 2016

A lot of you have probably seen the now viral cell phone video shot in the Beirut Souks…

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.