MMedia Read More 2 minute read Company uses images of abused women to sell apartmentsbyHabib BattahDec 8, 2015 Text above reads roughly: “What are you waiting for? 0 percent downpayment. Now you can be independent” It’s…
MMedia Read More 1 minute read Framing tragedy, post Beirut/Paris coveragebyHabib BattahNov 19, 2015 I spoke to Al Jazeera program The Stream this week during a special about how Beirut and Paris…
CCulture & Heritage Read More 6 minute read Abou Rakhousa and the politics of povertybyHabib BattahNov 10, 2015 I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…
MMedia Read More 2 minute read In latest shooting, a very different reactionbyHabib BattahJul 28, 2015 It’s been over ten days since the mass shooting at US military offices in Tennessee and here in…
MMedia Read More 4 minute read Who’s got your data?byHabib BattahJul 13, 2015 Following my interrogation by Hezbollah last month, I was left wondering what data they may have been able…
MMedia Read More 11 minute read Held by HezbollahbyHabib BattahJun 16, 2015 “I don’t mind sitting here,” I told the Hezbollah guard who kept watch over us in a run-down…
MMedia Read More 2 minute read Two pools, two worlds of news coveragebyHabib BattahJun 9, 2015 By now much of the world has seen the brutal image of a Texas police officer literally sitting…
MMedia Read More 1 minute read Media gets it wrong on Arab saintsbyHabib BattahMay 17, 2015 From New York Times to The Telegraph, to The Jerusalem Post, news outlets around the world are erroneously…
MMedia Read More 5 minute read New York Times sells Israel’s next warbyHabib BattahMay 13, 2015 How hard is it for the Israeli military to launch an unprovoked war with its neighbor by casting…
MMedia Read More 2 minute read New report: Press freedom threatened in Lebanon, regionbyHabib BattahMay 4, 2015 Both Lebanon and Kuwait were among the poorest performing countries in terms of press freedom, according to a…