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Residents vow to protect historic steps from developers

byHabib Battah
Nov 10, 2013

A protest was held last night in Mar Mikhael after residents learned that a historic passageway through their…

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Roman wall removed from Beirut Hippodrome site

byHabib Battah
Oct 25, 2013

It survived some 2,000 years of wars and conquest, but the wall above is now gone. Archeologists believe…

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.