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Erasing memory in downtown Beirut

byHabib Battah
Jan 19, 2014

A waiter surveys a row of empty tables beneath the Place De L’Etoile clock tower seen on so…

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Best beach in Lebanon

byHabib Battah
Jun 16, 2013

There’s been a lot of bad press about Lebanese beaches lately–well mainly one article that made some incredibly…

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.