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A date with Clinton’s innovation tzar

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 15, 2013
 A Date With Clinton’s Innovation TsarALEC ROSS, SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON’S INNOVATION ADVISOR, RECENTLY SPENT SOME TIME IN…
IInternet
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Much ado about nothing

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 28, 2012
Published December 2012 // BOLD Magazine   By Habib Battah Perhaps it was naive to be thinking of…
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The Elusive Mr. Youssef

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 13, 2012
Published August 2012 // BOLD MAGAZINE By Habib BattahMuch of what has been said or written about Lebanon’s…
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Investigating Lebanon’s internet

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 29, 2012
Here’s a copy of my cover story for this month’s issue of Bold Magazine: WEB OF DECEIT: HOW…
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What fire? Local news didn’t see it.

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 27, 2012
(*Update below) As I type this, an Armageddon-shaped black cloud of smoke hangs over Beirut, caused by a…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Fires not considered fires by Lebanese authorities

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 26, 2012
This afternoon, smoke from multiple fires billowed out of a green valley in Mtaileb, a hillside Beirut suburb,…
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How (not) to report pollution in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 15, 2012
For much of this afternoon, a luxury residential apartment building was transformed into a pollution spewing factory fit…
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Deck the halls with electricity

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 27, 2011
Once again, Christmas lights are everywhere in Lebanon from the tiniest of villages to the sprawling urban suburbs.…
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Internet overpricing with impunity

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 13, 2011
It’s now been two weeks since Lebanese internet service providers began charging customers more money for falsely promised…
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Electricity godfathers rule billion dollar Lebanon market

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 12, 2011
credit: The Godfather, Paramount Pictures The Corleones would be envious. Lebanese generator owners are racking up tax free…
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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.
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