Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist, political analyst and founder of beirutreport.com. He has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 years, contributing to The Guardian, BBC News, Al Jazeera English, CNN, Fortune, Jacobin and others. He is a former journalist fellow at Oxford University and the American University of Beirut, where he has taught journalism and media studies. His work has been recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award and he is a two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award.

Battah's journalism focuses on postwar reconstruction, land use and privatization, state development projects, environmental impact and Western media coverage of the Middle East. He holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

Courses:

• GS-101 Intro GS I:Political Economy
• GS-340 Blogging the Globe