August 2009 | Beirut Report

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After Beirut, what’s next for Snoop?

byHabib Battah
Aug 25, 2009

Snoop Dogg and his band threw an outstanding show in Beirut last week. I got a behind-the- scenes…

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Snoop in Beirut

byHabib Battah
Aug 18, 2009

American hip hop legend Snoop Dogg (pictured here on the cover of a local newspaper) will be performing…

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.