Bir Abed Archives | Beirut Report

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CIA was behind the last major explosion in Bir Abed

byHabib Battah
Jul 9, 2013

LBC did an interesting background report on today’s explosion in Bir Abed. Turns out there was another huge…

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The problem with Lebanese crime scenes

byHabib Battah
Jul 9, 2013

It’s only been a few hours since today’s blast in Beirut and already the crime scene has become…

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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 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.