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Vintage Hamra shopping center

byHabib Battah
Nov 9, 2013

This was probably all lit up Las Vegas style in the 1960s. But now the bulbs are burned…

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Salim Slem squeeze

byHabib Battah
Feb 24, 2013

The Army had blocked off all roads leading to Salim Slem this afternoon, following clashes after a rally by…

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.