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Leading Lebanese TV station Al Jadeed has just published a piece following up on my article in the BBC this week on developer plans to build over Beirut’s Roman Hippodrome.

Hopefully more local media will pick up this issue and that of archeology in general. As one archeologist I spoke to put it: “People have no idea how many sites are being destroyed across Lebanon.”

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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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