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RRule of Law

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The ugly face of the kafala system

byHabib Battah
Apr 19, 2018

When I exited the plane in Beirut last night, I noticed an Ethiopia Airlines plane parked next to…

MMedia

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Company uses images of abused women to sell apartments

byHabib Battah
Dec 8, 2015

Text above reads roughly: “What are you waiting for? 0 percent downpayment. Now you can be independent” It’s…

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…

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…

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.