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Rare Verdun greenery cleared for another mall

byHabib Battah
Feb 7, 2014

Photo: Qaph blog Have a good look at those trees– they’ll be gone soon, if not already dumped…

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ABC: Christmas charity or profit?

byHabib Battah
Dec 23, 2013

There are few places more beautifully decorated this season than ABC Ashrafieh, one of Lebanon’s fanciest malls, whose…

Who Am I?

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.