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CCulture & Heritage

3 minute read

Developer to resume dismantling of Hippodrome

byHabib Battah
Sep 29, 2013

A work cessation order at Beirut’s Roman Hippodrome site has been overruled and the dismantlement of ruins belonging…

IInternet

1 minute read

888 minutes left to upload your video

byHabib Battah
Aug 2, 2013

I’ve been uploading this 1 minute 24 second video since last night. That’s over 12 hours and it…

RRule of Law

4 minute read

The changing Gemayel testimony: What did he “see”?

byHabib Battah
Jun 30, 2013

I’ve watched several television interviews where MP Gemayel describes “an unprovoked attack” on his convoy by a crowd…

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.