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RRule of Law

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Journalists and bloggers defy press crackdown

byHabib Battah
Apr 6, 2014

This column was first published in the April issue of Bold Magazine A Thirst For Silence By Habib Battah …

MMedia

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Hanging political currency

byHabib Battah
Aug 1, 2013

Originally published in Bold Magazine By Habib Battah Not long after our new prime minister Tammam Salam took…

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Park or investigation?

byHabib Battah
Jun 6, 2013

The Daily Star There’s an interesting piece from in The Daily Star today about a new park named…

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The rise of Rifi

byHabib Battah
May 23, 2013

Retired police chief Ashraf Rifi entered the spotlight today when he threw his support behind the fighters of…

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.