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That’s a screen shot from BBC’s news site today and you’ll see my latest piece as the second story. It looks at the battle to preserve the recently uncovered Roman hippodrome in Beirut, which is one of five in the Middle East. But that hasn’t stopped developers from going ahead with plans to build multi-million dollar homes on the site.

Archeologists say it’s just one of many places in Lebanon where ruins are disappearing in favor of real estate projects. Read the whole article with exclusive pictures here …and please share!

The last time a major archeological dig in Beirut got a lot of publicity, the Minister actually cancelled the real estate project planned for the site.

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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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