October 2012 | Page 2 of 2

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Which dictator will you be this Halloween?

byHabib Battah
Oct 11, 2012

Storefront. #Hamra

MMedia

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Blaming the media

byHabib Battah
Oct 10, 2012

Here is a copy of my “Media Uncovered” column for the September issue of Bold Magazine. I’m late…

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First world corruption

byHabib Battah
Oct 9, 2012

Photo: Both Sides of Table In Lebanon, we often write off everyday corruption as a local phenomenon i.e.…

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Orientalist dream come true

byHabib Battah
Oct 7, 2012

#Hamra, Beirut Everyone gets questions about Beirut, but I’ll never forget what a guy once asked me when…

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Think you had a rough night?

byHabib Battah
Oct 6, 2012

Try getting some sleep under 1 million watt spot lights, like the workers at this Beirut construction site:…

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.