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Amid constant blackouts, Energy minister awarded prize

byHabib Battah
Oct 1, 2018

If you live in Lebanon, you would probably fall out of your chair if I told you government…

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Who needs hover boards….

byHabib Battah
Mar 28, 2013

Wired.com While the film “Back to the Future II” promised the futuristic floating skateboards would be the norm by 2015……

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Deck the halls with electricity

byHabib Battah
Dec 27, 2011

Once again, Christmas lights are everywhere in Lebanon from the tiniest of villages to the sprawling urban suburbs.…

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Electricity godfathers rule billion dollar Lebanon market

byHabib Battah
Sep 12, 2011

credit: The Godfather, Paramount Pictures The Corleones would be envious. Lebanese generator owners are racking up tax free…

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.