February 2008 | Beirut Report

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Keeping the peace?

byHabib Battah
Feb 21, 2008

Last weekend, I witnessed some of the sporadic street fighting that has been going on in Beirut for…

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TV politics

byHabib Battah
Feb 8, 2008

At first glance, I was totally stunned to see an unveiled female reporter appearing on the Hezbollah-backed TV…

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A civilized war zone

byHabib Battah
Feb 1, 2008

Here’s a little message from the friendly people at the phone company. Whether rain or rocket-propelled grenades are…

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.