Bilal Hamad Archives | Beirut Report

EEnvironment & Public Space

5 minute read

Does Beirut deserve green space?

byHabib Battah
May 8, 2015

Next week there is a protest to call for the opening of Beirut’s only major park, which…

EEnvironment & Public Space

2 minute read

Job’s Wednesday: A Ras Beirut tradition

byHabib Battah
Apr 30, 2015

This week, Beirut residents celebrated Job’s Wednesday (Orba’at Ayoub) at Ramlet El Baida, a tradition that stretches back…

CCulture & Heritage

5 minute read

Media, activists shut out of municipality talks once again

byHabib Battah
Mar 31, 2014

AUB engineering students have arranged a rare question and answer session with the mayor of Beirut over the…

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.