IInternet Read More 2 minute read Get in touch with your MPs nowbyHabib BattahMay 31, 2014 Screen Shot of Nouweb site One of the best ways to hold government accountable is to get in…
RRule of Law Read More 2 minute read “This is not Ariel Sharon’s supermarket”byHabib BattahMay 27, 2014 So reads the banner above, placed just outside an old supermarket on Makdessi street in Hamra. A handful…
RRule of Law Read More 1 minute read Texting and driving… a busbyHabib BattahApr 30, 2014 Watch the video below as this bus driver barely looks at the highway while texting for almost 20…
RRule of Law Read More 1 minute read Small acts of resistancebyHabib BattahApr 11, 2014 In the picture above, four cars are driving the wrong way on a one way street–as you can…
RRule of Law Read More 6 minute read Journalists and bloggers defy press crackdownbyHabib BattahApr 6, 2014 This column was first published in the April issue of Bold Magazine A Thirst For Silence By Habib Battah …
RRule of Law Read More 3 minute read Journalistic dilemmas: cakes, priests and the presidencybyHabib BattahMar 27, 2014 In journalism school, there are debates about what a reporter can ethically accept from a source. Gifts and…
RRule of Law Read More 5 minute read Dubai creative chillbyHabib BattahMar 21, 2014 Dubai’s Creative Chill This column first appeared in the March issue of Bold Magazine THE ARRESTS OF SHEZANNE…
RRule of Law Read More 3 minute read Policeman: Photography is “illegal” in HamrabyHabib BattahJan 30, 2014 A few minutes ago I was taking this picture when a policeman shouted at me. Cop: “Hey, stop,…
EEnvironment & Public Space Read More 12 minute read Erasing memory in downtown BeirutbyHabib BattahJan 19, 2014 A waiter surveys a row of empty tables beneath the Place De L’Etoile clock tower seen on so…
RRule of Law Read More 4 minute read A minister on trialbyHabib BattahNov 2, 2013 It’s not every day that you get to see a Lebanese minister pleading his case in court. But…