Beirut stars in new Snoop Dogg video

byHabib Battah
Oct 5, 2009

The new Snoop video “That’s Da Homie” is out and Beirut is playing a staring role!

You read it first here when I broke the story for CNN, a piece later picked up by 411mania and other sites.

I was really surprised by the level of exposure, having assumed Beirut would be one of many cities highlighted in a tour montage. Instead, Snoop’s Beirut after party (filmed at Skybar) anchors the entire clip!

Stay tuned for my un-aired footage of the Beirut show and after party.

Habib Battah

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.

1 comment

angie nader says:

Oct 6, 2009 at 2:48 am

OH WOW!!! thats a whole lot of beirut in his video!!! how nice of him to support Lebanon as a country!

…i think im gonna have to steal this and add the video to my blog as well 🙂

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