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Activists assaulted in downtown Beirut for baking MPs a cake

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 5, 2015
Activists have just been assaulted by Lebanese security forces after they say they had baked a cake to…
RRule of Law
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How did Minister Bassil acquire $22M of real estate?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 3, 2015
Lebanese broadcaster LBC has just released a fascinating report detailing the curious and multi-million dollar real estate holdings…
CCrime
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When a state fears protests, not militias

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 20, 2015
The passing away of Zahle MP Elias Skaff last week after a “long (unspecified) illness” has opened an…
CCrime
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Poverty and abuse in the Bekaa

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 8, 2015
Once again, winter is approaching and Lebanon not only faces the environmental disaster of garbage soaking into the…
CCrime
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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
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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…
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Protestors embrace security forces after tense standoff

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 28, 2015
In contrast to the street violence earlier this week and harsh crackdown on young protestors, it was all…
RRule of Law
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Private security confront police at Zaitunay Bay

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 25, 2015
Watch this private security man get right in the face of uniformed police officers. According to Al Jadeed,…
CCrime
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Should elites be held responsible for their bodyguards?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 17, 2015
The Daily Star reported today that a bodyguard associated with prominent banker Antoun Sehnaoui stabbed a man to…
RRule of Law
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Faces of Aoun: adventures in postwar Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 10, 2015
On the surface, it felt like so many rallies I have covered in Lebanon. Young people, hungry for…
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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 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.
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