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Will Renzo Piano’s new tower demolish an ancient city buried under Beirut?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 23, 2018
“We will find where you live,”  a watchman yelled at me after taking a picture of ruins on…
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Ghalghoul: a neighborhood erased

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 22, 2017
Before and after pictures were at the heart of the project to rebuild downtown Beirut following the Lebanese…
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One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 6, 2017
What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
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Historic Laziza brewery demolition begins, can it be stopped?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 27, 2017
  A number of images are appearing on social media today documenting the demolition of one of Lebanon’s…
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Demolition of Art Deco building resumes, despite governor’s order

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 15, 2017
Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art…
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Police demolish fishermen homes: “The Israelis treated us better”

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 2, 2015
This kind of destruction is usually caused by a war or natural disaster. But this was Beirut this…
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Losing Aabrine, erasing a neighborhood

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 23, 2015
Gabriel Daher, who is known for posting beautiful images of old Beirut, posted something a bit different today.…
CCulture & Heritage
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Lord’s Hotel coming down

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 22, 2014
This old Ras Beirut hotel has been abandoned for a few years and now looks to be coming…
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Activists harassed as demolition continues in Gemmazye

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 17, 2014
Despite a cessation order posted yesterday by Beirut’s governor, demolition works have continued today at a historic Art…
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Update: Beirut governor halts demolition work at Gemmayze building

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 16, 2014
In a Facebook post last night, Beirut Governor Ziad Chebib shared an order from his office to halt…
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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.
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