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Sanayeh building update

byHabib Battah
Oct 31, 2013

Last week I posted on what seemed to be the destruction of yet another historic Beirut building, the…

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Checkered Sanayeh building to come down?

byHabib Battah
Oct 21, 2013

For years, an odd checkered building has been lying abandoned across the street from the Ministry of Interior…

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.