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Tents collapse, media looks the other way

byHabib Battah
Sep 22, 2013

Yesterday I posted about the dangers posed to thousands of Syrian refugees living in tents across the country…

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80 families: 2 bathrooms

byHabib Battah
Sep 13, 2013

I visited Ayn El Hilwe today, one of Lebanon’s most violent and densely populated Palestinian refugee camps. The…

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.