January 2008 | Beirut Report

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On Coffin Draping

byHabib Battah
Jan 29, 2008

A picture can tell a thousand words and this one is all too Lebanese. Where else in the…

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The Show Must Go On

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2008

On the upside (or not) people in Lebanon seem to be paying less attention to assassinations. In the…

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CSI Beirut

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2008

Another day, another assassination, another mystery. Living in Lebanon is beginning to feel like being unwillingly cast as…

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.