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In latest shooting, a very different reaction

byHabib Battah
Jul 28, 2015

It’s been over ten days since the mass shooting at US military offices in Tennessee and here in…

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Brazil takes Raouche

byHabib Battah
May 19, 2014

Now how did they get up there?

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Policeman: Photography is “illegal” in Hamra

byHabib Battah
Jan 30, 2014

A few minutes ago I was taking this picture when a policeman shouted at me. Cop: “Hey, stop,…

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The Republic of Amal

byHabib Battah
Aug 30, 2013

In light of yesterday’s Lebanese Forces post, I thought I would introduce you to Amal land: Home of…

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Pick a flag, any flag

byHabib Battah
Aug 10, 2013

Tyre, yesterday. Supposedly there is a 1945 law which states no flag other than the Lebanese one should…

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Pomp and flag-hanging: Abbas visits

byHabib Battah
Jul 3, 2013

Yesterday, cranes and workers were hard at work scrubbing the sidewalks and hanging up flags all across 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.