Rafik Hariri Archives | Beirut Report

MMedia

8 minute read

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

1 minute read

Political posters removed except…

byHabib Battah
Feb 21, 2015

There has been much fanfare about the removal of political signs and posters from Beirut, as part of…

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.