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CCulture & Heritage

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Pre-historic ruins possibly recovered from Beirut tunnel site

byHabib Battah
May 7, 2014

Ancient ruins removed this afternoon– archeologists say site could be up to 8,000 years old. It started with…

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Beit Levy?

byHabib Battah
Apr 3, 2013

I had to take these photos quickly. A few days earlier, a policeman told me I could be…

CCulture & Heritage

3 minute read

Mystery BCD plot for secret eyes only

byHabib Battah
Mar 29, 2013

In what was once the Jewish quarter of Beirut, through a small slit in the metal panel fence,…

RRule of Law

1 minute read

Playing to an empty house

byHabib Battah
Mar 1, 2013

Today’s match in Tripoli’s soccer stadium went largely unwatched. Thousands of seats were empty: The only fans in…

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.