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Race Against Time: How luxury developers are wiping out ancient Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 28, 2019
A version of this story was published in Monocle Magazine, August 2018 By Habib Battah Just across the…
CCulture & Heritage
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New excavations across downtown Beirut, Saifi and Martyr’s Square

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 4, 2018
Archaeological excavations have been mushrooming across downtown Beirut over recent months, providing a glimpse at how the city…
CCulture & Heritage
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How did ancient Beirut get tossed in a pile?

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 13, 2017
In the shadow of the towers of new Beirut, the ruins of ancient Beirut have literally been dismembered…
AArcheology
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Ruins cleared near port of Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 19, 2017
Following our last post about the vast ruins site uncovered near the “Beirut Digital District” construction site, a…
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Ancient ruins uncovered in the ‘digital district’

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 5, 2017
A wide range of ancient structures have been uncovered in downtown Beirut that may provide important clues to…
CCulture & Heritage
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The gutting of Beirut’s Roman racetrack

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 27, 2015
We often worry about extremist groups like ISIS destroying history in the Middle East. But in Beirut, private…
CCulture & Heritage
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Clues to Roman Beirut at Saifi dig?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 5, 2015
Roman Berytus was one of the most lavish cities in the empire, featuring a massive chariot race track…
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Update: New photos inside Saifi dig

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 22, 2014
Soon after posting about the ruins discovered at the Saifi Plaza excavation, an activist got in touch over…
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Ruins cleared at Saifi Plaza

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 20, 2014
There appears to be nothing left of a major downtown Beirut excavation that took place here a month…
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Roman wall removed from Beirut Hippodrome site

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 25, 2013
It survived some 2,000 years of wars and conquest, but the wall above is now gone. Archeologists believe…
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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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