March 2012 | Beirut Report

Summer Snow

byHabib Battah
Mar 20, 2012

Here’s my 3 minute submission to Lebanon’s Snow Film Festival: If you enjoy it, you can vote at…

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Is Aishti killing us softly?

byHabib Battah
Mar 14, 2012

“Everywhere we look, women’s bodies are turned into things and parts of things,” said Jean Kilbourne, the renown…

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Hezbollah Vs. CocaCola

byHabib Battah
Mar 7, 2012

Television viewers were treated to a match-made-in-Lebanon tonight. On the left, wearing yellow, was a team Ahed. They…

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.