police brutality Archives

CCrime

4 minute read

Hate crimes cannot be tolerated in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jul 18, 2017

No citizen is safe when brutality and hate crimes are tolerated. When contacted on Twitter this evening, the…

CCrime

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When a state fears protests, not militias

byHabib Battah
Oct 20, 2015

The passing away of Zahle MP Elias Skaff last week after a “long (unspecified) illness” has opened an…

RRule of Law

1 minute read

Police beat journalists on video

byHabib Battah
Aug 13, 2014

The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban A video has recently surfaced documenting police beating journalists this week. The reporters were…

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.