Habib Battah·

The Fairuz scandal

Listen to my interview with Claire Bolderson from the BBC World Service on the career of Lebanese diva, Fairuz, the Arab world’s only living legend. Following a royalty dispute, lawyers have threatened to prevent the 75-year-old from performing live.

Habib Battah
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.