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Painting Beirut’s slums

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 11, 2017
When we hear about real estate developers working in poor neighborhoods, it often means they are tearing them…
CCulture & Heritage
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Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sites

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 15, 2017
Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it back

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 23, 2016
Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…
CCrime
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Above the law: Top 20 illegal election posters

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 6, 2016
An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Urban intervention at Boutros Road

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 5, 2015
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Exhibit proposing coastal alternatives draws crowds

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 8, 2015
Government officials like to complain that activists love making noise but never propose actual solutions. This is especially…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Playing monopoly with the lights off

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 26, 2015
  How does municipal planning work in Beirut? Who draws up the projects and what experts are consulted? The…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Last chance to support Dalieh crowdfunding campaign

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 19, 2015
Readers of this blog will be quite familiar with the campaign to save Beirut’s last undeveloped natural rocky…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Inside the forbidden Horsh

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 15, 2015
Last year, we were allowed inside Beirut’s only major park for just one day. This year,  (tomorrow May 16)…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Does Beirut deserve green space?

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 8, 2015
  Next week there is a protest to call for the opening of Beirut’s only major park, which…
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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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