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CCulture & Heritage

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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

6 minute read

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…

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.