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At war with a prince

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 10, 2015
In the video above, LBC TV show host Joe Maalouf takes multiple shots a Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin…
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Tramway exhibit this week

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 1, 2014
I just stumbled upon this interesting Al Jadeed TV report about Lebanon’s old trolley car or “tramway” system.…
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Band invades Beirut airport

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 19, 2014
It’s not easy flying into Beirut these days. With fears of ISIS beheading soldiers and invading villages, refugees…
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Tripoli residents: ‘It’s poverty, stupid’

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 9, 2014
Local channel LBC ran this brilliant five minute interview with an unidentified man on the street in Tripoli.…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Save your bottles, support Lebanon’s glass industry

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 31, 2014
A lot of bottles will be piling up on the streets tonight. Soon they will be in landfills…
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Transit Game to hit theatres

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 20, 2014
A film I co-produced will be screening in Europe next week. Transit Game was shot in the mountains…
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Male bellydancer woos audiences

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 15, 2014
The news has been a bit heavy lately, so I thought I’d let you know that joy still…
RRule of Law
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Police beat journalists on video

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 13, 2014
The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban A video has recently surfaced documenting police beating journalists this week. The reporters were…
MMedia
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Inspired by Michael Moore, Lebanese journalists use bullhorn and pay price

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 27, 2013
The Al Jadeed journalists who were brutally beaten and detained by Lebanese customs agents have just published the video…
MMedia
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Al Jadeed journalists freed

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 26, 2013
That’s Riad Kobessi, an investigative journalist and one of three Al Jadeed TV crew members who were savagely…
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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 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.
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