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Dalieh competition winners announced

byHabib Battah
Jun 1, 2015

The results of the Dalieh Ideas competition, which seeks to protect Beirut’s natural coast from private development, were announced…

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Last week to enter Dalieh ideas competition

byHabib Battah
Apr 29, 2015

If you haven’t seen it, watch this old Egyptian movie clip about the future of Dalieh. Activists have…

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.