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How did Minister Bassil acquire $22M of real estate?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 3, 2015
Lebanese broadcaster LBC has just released a fascinating report detailing the curious and multi-million dollar real estate holdings…
MMedia
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At war with a prince

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 10, 2015
In the video above, LBC TV show host Joe Maalouf takes multiple shots a Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin…
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Journalists and bloggers defy press crackdown

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 6, 2014
This column was first published in the April issue of Bold Magazine A Thirst For Silence By Habib Battah …
RRule of Law
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Journalistic dilemmas: cakes, priests and the presidency

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 27, 2014
In journalism school, there are debates about what a reporter can ethically accept from a source. Gifts and…
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Complicating a ‘Hezbollah stronghold’

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 19, 2014
At least six people were reported killed in today’s bomb in Bir Hassan, near South Beirut.  As usual,…
MMedia
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Boobs over sport. Is Jackie really a hero?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 12, 2014
Lebanese skier posed nude on the public slopes for photographer Prince Hubertus. By now everyone has heard of…
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Airtime is free for Lebanese politicians

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 11, 2014
Politics is hard. But it’s a lot easier when you get free adverting and free airtime–when every time…

Poking fun at political colors

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 14, 2013
Everyone seems to be talking about LBC’s new studio and branding. And while discussing the new colors they…
MMedia
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Tents collapse, media looks the other way

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 22, 2013
Yesterday I posted about the dangers posed to thousands of Syrian refugees living in tents across the country…
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Happy General Security day

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 31, 2013
A video montage featuring the head of General Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim was airing on LBC sister…
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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.
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