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Texting and driving… a bus

byHabib Battah
Apr 30, 2014

Watch the video below as this bus driver barely looks at the highway while texting for almost 20…

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The most dangerous place in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jun 18, 2013

No it is not Saida, Tripoli or the Bekaa Valley. This is Dekwaneh, a working class suburb of…

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Syrian trucks in waiting

byHabib Battah
Apr 2, 2013

I counted at least 20 trucks with Syrian plates parked on the side of the highway yesterday on…

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 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.