November 2009 | Beirut Report

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Sex sells… washing machines?

byHabib Battah
Nov 29, 2009

Yet another example of how much the Lebanese advertising industry loves to push the envelope. This Whirlpool campaign…

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Hidden Villas of Beirut

byHabib Battah
Nov 23, 2009

One of the great things about walking the streets of Beirut is discovering the capital’s hidden and often…

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‘New’ government, same owners

byHabib Battah
Nov 11, 2009

(photo credit: tayyar.org) Lebanon is under new management this week, but the country is still largely owned by…

CCulture & Heritage

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Digging up Beirut

byHabib Battah
Nov 4, 2009

Solidere, the company rebuilding downtown Beirut, has taken a lot of flack for transforming the most ruinous part…

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.