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Hate crimes cannot be tolerated in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jul 18, 2017

No citizen is safe when brutality and hate crimes are tolerated. When contacted on Twitter this evening, the…

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Poverty and abuse in the Bekaa

byHabib Battah
Oct 8, 2015

Once again, winter is approaching and Lebanon not only faces the environmental disaster of garbage soaking into the…

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Can the private sector help the Syrian refugee crisis?

byHabib Battah
Jan 5, 2015

Today I spoke to the BBC World Service about the worsening refugee crisis in Lebanon and the…

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Getting access to information in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Nov 7, 2014

How hard is it to get information from the Lebanese government? The answer may surprise you. I…

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Refugee Nation: Lebanon fails to cope with population influx

byHabib Battah
Oct 13, 2013

Here is a copy of my article and photo-essay for this month’s Al Jazeera’s digital magazine, available…

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 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.