Before and After Archives

CCulture & Heritage

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Ghalghoul: a neighborhood erased

byHabib Battah
Oct 22, 2017

Before and after pictures were at the heart of the project to rebuild downtown Beirut following the Lebanese…

CCulture & Heritage

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Lost interiors: Inside Lords Hotel for the last time

byHabib Battah
Jan 26, 2015

I managed to capture the final moments of Lord’s Hotel this afternoon. The gradual destruction of this 1950s…

TTravel

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Old East Village photos revisited with Google

byHabib Battah
Jan 4, 2015

Yes, this blog is mainly about Beirut, but I’ve added a new travel section to share some of…

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.