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The changing Israeli media narrative

byHabib Battah
Dec 16, 2013

Photo: China Weekly It has barely been 24 hours since the exchange of fire on the Lebanon-Israel border.…

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Who will fly America’s gift to Lebanon?

byHabib Battah
Nov 7, 2013

Source: World Tribune In case you haven’t heard, The United States has donated one Cessna prop plane to…

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.