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The myth of Lebanese television news

byHabib Battah
Apr 17, 2012

“We will not be silenced and brainwashed by your media,” read a message posted by a group of…

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What Murdoch is really doing in the Middle East

byHabib Battah
Apr 7, 2012

Here’s a copy of my cover story for the inaugural issue of Bold magazine: By Habib Battah Under…

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Two Worlds: US and Arab TV on Gaza

byHabib Battah
Jan 7, 2009

Watching Gaza on Arab and American TV is like watching two different worlds. For Arab channels, Gaza is…

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Live smoking

byHabib Battah
Mar 13, 2008

Where else in the world can one go on live television and smoke profusely during an interview? And…

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TV politics

byHabib Battah
Feb 8, 2008

At first glance, I was totally stunned to see an unveiled female reporter appearing on the Hezbollah-backed TV…

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The Show Must Go On

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2008

On the upside (or not) people in Lebanon seem to be paying less attention to assassinations. In the…

Who Am I?

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.