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PPublic Services

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Municipal work? Start a fire

byHabib Battah
Aug 9, 2014

The municipality of a certain village was forced to call the fire department this week for a fire…

MMedia

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The fire of fear and political opportunism

byHabib Battah
Jan 4, 2014

It has only been hours since the mysterious torching of a priest’s library in Tripoli and politicians have…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Massive blaze is Saida’s latest disaster

byHabib Battah
Apr 28, 2013

This doomsday-like cloud loomed ahead as we drove through Saida (Sidon) today. According to this super short report…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Fires not considered fires by Lebanese authorities

byHabib Battah
Feb 26, 2012

This afternoon, smoke from multiple fires billowed out of a green valley in Mtaileb, a hillside Beirut suburb,…

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.