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New excavations across downtown Beirut, Saifi and Martyr’s Square

byHabib Battah
Feb 4, 2018

Archaeological excavations have been mushrooming across downtown Beirut over recent months, providing a glimpse at how the city…

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How did ancient Beirut get tossed in a pile?

byHabib Battah
May 13, 2017

In the shadow of the towers of new Beirut, the ruins of ancient Beirut have literally been dismembered…

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Ancient ruins uncovered in the ‘digital district’

byHabib Battah
Mar 5, 2017

A wide range of ancient structures have been uncovered in downtown Beirut that may provide important clues to…

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Can Seal help ‘legalize’ public performance in Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Dec 15, 2016

A lot of you have probably seen the now viral cell phone video shot in the Beirut Souks…

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.