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Jack’s (abandoned) Hideaway

byHabib Battah
Feb 16, 2015

This place has been closed for as long as I can remember. It’s located on the bottom floor…

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Labaki road mansion

byHabib Battah
Jun 3, 2013

This is one of many 19th-20th century homes that will be torn down by the controversial Boutros road…

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Abandoned Clemenceau villa

byHabib Battah
Apr 20, 2013

Like many abandoned Beirut mansions, this one in Clemenceau is covered in a jungle of weeds. I wonder…

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.