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Facebook-inspired design

byHabib Battah
May 2, 2014

Both establishments pictured here in Hamra. Not sure if a “like” buys you a discount.

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Best Buy in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jan 28, 2014

I saw this place in Mansourieh recently– that’s the hills above Beirut. Interestingly the massive American electronics store’s website…

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Jumeriah Beach, Hamra

byHabib Battah
Nov 25, 2013

This guy seems a little bit far from home. Also don’t miss the ode to St. Charbel in…

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Lebanon’s copyright problem

byHabib Battah
Jul 15, 2013

I saw this recently in Jounieh, but I’m having a hard time believing it is an actual “7-Eleven”…

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.