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Support this refugee-run food truck

byHabib Battah
Nov 29, 2015

As we pick through the ashes of last weeks tragedies, often despairing or overanalyzing, a story of hope…

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Last chance to support Dalieh crowdfunding campaign

byHabib Battah
May 19, 2015

Readers of this blog will be quite familiar with the campaign to save Beirut’s last undeveloped natural rocky…

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.