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Who owns Al Mayadeen?

byHabib Battah
Aug 12, 2013

The question was put to the channel’s news director, Sami Kleib, who was a guest last night on…

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Mad about Al Mayadeen

byHabib Battah
Jun 7, 2012

It seems everyone is talking about Al Mayadeen, the latest brand to join the growing family of Arab…

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.