March 2011 | Beirut Report

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Libyan rebel with a cause… and a guitar

byHabib Battah
Mar 31, 2011

I tuned into Al Arabiya the other day to find this jewel: A guitar-strumming Libyan rebel. Notice the…

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Blackout Syria, replace with your favorite revolution

byHabib Battah
Mar 25, 2011

Tonight, major Arab networks are leading their nightly news bulletins with grainy cell phone footage of angry crowds,…

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Revolution for hire

byHabib Battah
Mar 16, 2011

Last weekend, tens of thousands of Lebanese poured into the streets of their capital in what seemed familiar…

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.