September 2015 | Beirut Report

CCrime

9 minute read

Who has been attacking protestors in Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Sep 28, 2015

“Listen you f**ks,” the man wearing military style pants and boots yelled at dozens of young male and…

EEnvironment & Public Space

4 minute read

How activists reclaimed Beirut’s coast and why it matters

byHabib Battah
Sep 13, 2015

As I have written previously, a new boldness appears to be gaining strength among Lebanese activists in the…

EEnvironment & Public Space

2 minute read

A new era of boldness?

byHabib Battah
Sep 3, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVzgm6rJIW8&feature=youtu.be These last few weeks have seen a lot of unprecedented moments in Lebanon. We saw huge protests…

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 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.