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WIll it work? Official Boutros road map

byHabib Battah
May 30, 2013

By now most of you have probably heard of the controversial Fouad Boutros road project which will cut…

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Boutros road or Boutros park?

byHabib Battah
May 29, 2013

Source: Association for the Protection of Lebanese Heritage Activists have sent me these sketches comparing their proposal for…

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.