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EEnvironment & Public Space

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The violent face of real estate development in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jun 30, 2017

An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country’s…

EEnvironment & Public Space

3 minute read

Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it back

byHabib Battah
Nov 23, 2016

Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…

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.