See you tonight at six

byHabib Battah
Jun 21, 2013

The tents are still up and the young protestors are waiting for you to join them at six.

They are probably the only people taking a stand against Parliament’s decision to unilaterally cancel elections and extend their term today for an additional year and a half.

Activists say the move is unconstitutional and represents the lack of accountability from Lebanon’s major parties who have run this country into the ground for decades.

I’m here and will be tweeting pictures and developments live @habib_b

Habib Battah

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.