February 2014 | Page 2 of 2

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Valentine’s preparations

byHabib Battah
Feb 6, 2014

“I love you 1 extra degree” Think that’s weird? Check out the phallic Valentine wears at this Beirut…

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Catwalk vs. sandbags

byHabib Battah
Feb 5, 2014

The bustle of Hamra was interrupted last night by techno music as models were paraded through the street.…

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Lebanon is turning into an episode of 24

byHabib Battah
Feb 3, 2014

Lebanon’s security forces may have failed to stop car bombs, but that has not stopped the media from…

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Defiance in Hermel

byHabib Battah
Feb 3, 2014

A day after the car bombing that killed four people in Hermel, Al Manar TV reported live from…

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Parking lot fruit

byHabib Battah
Feb 1, 2014

This afternoon in Beirut, before tonight’s horrific Hermel bombing.

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.