Batroun country roads

byHabib Battah
Apr 25, 2013

One of my all time-favorite spots to drive in Lebanon is the coastal road linking the villages of Batroun, Monsef and Barbara.

Makes you want to sing some John Denver.

Habib Battah

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.

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Maria says:

Apr 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm

When I was a kid and we used to drive from Beirut to have Sunday lunches in those areas, my favorite game was to find the train tracks, lose them and then find them again. 🙂

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Habib Battah says:

Apr 26, 2013 at 12:17 pm

Sounds like fun. But I was surprised to see some areas near the tracks had signs warning of land mines. Glad you grew up ok 🙂

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