coastal highway Archives

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…

PPublic Services

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Highway closed for no reason?

byHabib Battah
Nov 17, 2016

For no clear reason, a major highway was closed during morning rush hour today. Police officers and vehicles…

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Thanks Hollywood

byHabib Battah
Feb 1, 2013

Because with Israeli jets overhead, sporadic explosions around town and the slaughter of hundreds every week a few…

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.