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Can Lebanese political parties be investigated for blasphemy too?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 25, 2019
The Lebanese state (which literally cannot keep the streetlights on at night where hundreds die in highway collisions…
CCrime
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Hate crimes cannot be tolerated in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 18, 2017
No citizen is safe when brutality and hate crimes are tolerated. When contacted on Twitter this evening, the…
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Saving big cats and fighting zoo abuse

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 26, 2016
Let’s face it, the Lebanese are dealing with probably every problem known to civilization at this point from…
CCrime
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Above the law: Top 20 illegal election posters

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 6, 2016
An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen…
CCrime
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When a state fears protests, not militias

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 20, 2015
The passing away of Zahle MP Elias Skaff last week after a “long (unspecified) illness” has opened an…
CCrime
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Poverty and abuse in the Bekaa

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 8, 2015
Once again, winter is approaching and Lebanon not only faces the environmental disaster of garbage soaking into the…
CCrime
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Who has been attacking protestors in Beirut?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 28, 2015
“Listen you f**ks,” the man wearing military style pants and boots yelled at dozens of young male and…
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Should elites be held responsible for their bodyguards?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 17, 2015
The Daily Star reported today that a bodyguard associated with prominent banker Antoun Sehnaoui stabbed a man to…
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Cement factory militia attacks TV crew

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 12, 2014
In the video below, an Al Jadeed TV crew says they were assaulted by at least three car…
CCrime
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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.…
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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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