Ladies first

byHabib Battah
Jun 10, 2013
1 minute read

“Ladies” line at Lebanon’s motor vehicle inspection office. Probably one of the only places in this country where being female is not a disadvantage.

Definitely makes up for lack of equal rights under the law such as being denied the right to pass citizenship on to your children.

Habib Battah

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.