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CCulture & Heritage

6 minute read

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…

CCrime

3 minute read

Poverty and abuse in the Bekaa

byHabib Battah
Oct 8, 2015

Once again, winter is approaching and Lebanon not only faces the environmental disaster of garbage soaking into the…

CCrime

4 minute read

Tripoli residents: ‘It’s poverty, stupid’

byHabib Battah
Nov 9, 2014

Local channel LBC ran this brilliant five minute interview with an unidentified man on the street in Tripoli.…

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.