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Demolitions ongoing in Furn el Hayek

byHabib Battah
Oct 22, 2014

This may be your last chance to see some of the oldest buildings in Furn El Hayek, including…

CCulture & Heritage

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What’s being dug up at Saifi Gardens?

byHabib Battah
Mar 11, 2014

There appears to be a lot of interesting ruins being dug up at the new Safi Gardens development.…

CCulture & Heritage

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Quote of the week

byHabib Battah
Mar 24, 2013

“There is no need to worry,” said Culture Minister Gaby Layoun, following the theft of 46 items from…

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.