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EEnvironment & Public Space

6 minute read

The violent face of real estate development in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jun 30, 2017

An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country’s…

CCulture & Heritage

3 minute read

How the historic Adloun coast is becoming “Nabih Berri Port”

byHabib Battah
Jan 25, 2016

After several weeks of organizing and documentation by activists, the minister of environment has called for a halt…

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.