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What happened to the protests in Lebanon?

byHabib Battah
May 27, 2020

It’s a question I get asked a lot lately, most recently during a radio interview I did this…

CCulture & Heritage

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Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty

byHabib Battah
Nov 10, 2015

I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Inside the forbidden Horsh

byHabib Battah
May 15, 2015

Last year, we were allowed inside Beirut’s only major park for just one day. This year, (tomorrow May 16)…

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.