March 2008 | Beirut Report

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The sound of Hezbollah

byHabib Battah
Mar 31, 2008

Hezbollah gets a lot of attention for its rockets but is far less known for its symphony, which…

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Live smoking

byHabib Battah
Mar 13, 2008

Where else in the world can one go on live television and smoke profusely during an interview? And…

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Adding Rambo

byHabib Battah
Mar 4, 2008

Just in case the atmosphere wasn’t tense enough in Beirut, Lebanese film distributors have decided that we could…

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.