Marwan Charbel Archives | Beirut Report

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New Year’s Eve message from the Lebanese police

byHabib Battah
Dec 31, 2013

Lebanon’s Interior Minister, Marwan Charbel, has just appeared in a live television conference, assuring citizens that “the streets…

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“Excellent” security meeting day before blast

byHabib Battah
Aug 23, 2013

Naharnet Just hours before today’s Tripoli bombing Nahrnet published a report quoting Lebanon’s interior minister as saying the…

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LBC takes Charbel to task

byHabib Battah
Jun 26, 2013

“The problem with you journalists–some of you– is that you believe the liar and make the trustworthy lie.”…

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Election steal? Minister tells independent candidates ‘sue us’

byHabib Battah
May 24, 2013

From right: Independent candidates Elias Abou Mrad and Nadine Moussa at protest earlier this month. During a private…

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.