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Will Renzo Piano’s new tower demolish an ancient city buried under Beirut?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 23, 2018
“We will find where you live,”  a watchman yelled at me after taking a picture of ruins on…
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One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 6, 2017
What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
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Historic Laziza brewery demolition begins, can it be stopped?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 27, 2017
  A number of images are appearing on social media today documenting the demolition of one of Lebanon’s…
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Demolition of Art Deco building resumes, despite governor’s order

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 15, 2017
Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art…
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Inside Beit Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 17, 2016
Beit Beirut, Lebanon’s first memory museum, is finally getting ready to open its doors. After at least a…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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What happened to Beirut’s “Shoreline Walk”?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 14, 2016
One of the great things about the internet is that there is just so much floating around out…
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Campaign to save “Red House”

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 17, 2016
It seems everywhere you turn in Hamra, there is a new tower coming up. None of them affordable…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Exhibit proposing coastal alternatives draws crowds

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 8, 2015
Government officials like to complain that activists love making noise but never propose actual solutions. This is especially…
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Historic building demolition now near Phoenicia hotel

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 27, 2014
If you hurry, you might be able to get a glance of this historic facade before it is…
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Rose House opening to the public

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 14, 2014
Next week, Beirut’s storied “Rose House”, which sits on a rare green hill overlooking the Mediterranean, will be…
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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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