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Street colonizing and tambourine resistance

byHabib Battah
May 8, 2012

For the past few days, the highways and overpasses of East Beirut have been decked in the orange…

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Easy on the heels

byHabib Battah
May 4, 2012

Although I tortured the NY Times for their recent coverage of Lebanon, I have to say that the…

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Persian rebels?

byHabib Battah
May 2, 2012

I’ve just stumbled upon this new anti-Syrian regime Farsi language channel. Not sure where it is based or…

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.