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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.…

PPublic Services

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Lebanon’s failure to fund a crisis

byHabib Battah
Dec 9, 2013

This piece was originally published in the December issue of Bold Magazine. Aid: Lebanon’s Mission Impossible IT HAS BEEN…

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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…

CCulture & Heritage

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We once made trains

byHabib Battah
Sep 14, 2013

Did you know Lebanon has over 100 years of locomotive history? Neither did I and that’s why I’m…

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Whose telecom is it?

byHabib Battah
May 9, 2013

Telecom minister Nicolas Sehnaoui is in the news every day it seems, either launching new initiatives or defending…

Who Am I?

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.