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How activists reclaimed Beirut’s coast and why it matters

byHabib Battah
Sep 13, 2015

As I have written previously, a new boldness appears to be gaining strength among Lebanese activists in the…

RRule of Law

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Private security confront police at Zaitunay Bay

byHabib Battah
Jul 25, 2015

Watch this private security man get right in the face of uniformed police officers. According to Al Jadeed,…

RRule of Law

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A yacht to pay the rent

byHabib Battah
Jun 7, 2015

A “super yacht” called Samar has just docked in Beirut’s Zaitunay Bay marina. At around 77 meters, it…

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.