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New ruins in Gemmayze

There has been an ongoing dig for quite some time at the beginning of Gouraud Street–the main street…
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Saudi Arabia number 1?

I’ve seen this Ferrari before. It is always parked in front of the plastic surgery clinic of Dr.…
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Tramway exhibit this week

I just stumbled upon this interesting Al Jadeed TV report about Lebanon’s old trolley car or “tramway” system.…
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Historic building demolition now near Phoenicia hotel

If you hurry, you might be able to get a glance of this historic facade before it is…
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Dora goes solar

After years of darkness it seems the northern suburbs of Beirut will finally be lit up at night.…
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Band invades Beirut airport

It’s not easy flying into Beirut these days. With fears of ISIS beheading soldiers and invading villages, refugees…
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Rose House opening to the public

Next week, Beirut’s storied “Rose House”, which sits on a rare green hill overlooking the Mediterranean, will be…
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Tripoli residents: ‘It’s poverty, stupid’

Local channel LBC ran this brilliant five minute interview with an unidentified man on the street in Tripoli.…
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Question the media, win prizes

I’ve been working on a project called Checkdesk, which is a tool for verifying news stories and holding…
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Getting access to information in Lebanon

  How hard is it to get information from the Lebanese government? The answer may surprise you. I…
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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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