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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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Ruins cleared near port of Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 19, 2017
Following our last post about the vast ruins site uncovered near the “Beirut Digital District” construction site, a…
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Clues to Roman Beirut at Saifi dig?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 5, 2015
Roman Berytus was one of the most lavish cities in the empire, featuring a massive chariot race track…
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District S ruins finally revealed

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 27, 2014
Many readers of this blog will remember when I was physically assaulted by site staff at the excavation…
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Update: New photos inside Saifi dig

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 22, 2014
Soon after posting about the ruins discovered at the Saifi Plaza excavation, an activist got in touch over…
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Ruins discovered under Saifi 477

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 30, 2014
It’s not been easy to post about Beirut with all the carnage happening in Gaza. But that doesn’t…
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Massive excavation continues at Saifi

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 19, 2014
I was lucky enough to pass by the Saifi dig (above) today when the gate was briefly open.…
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New ruins near Bank Audi

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 25, 2014
Source: Rayya Haddad A series of structures have been recently discovered in central Beirut. They include several arched…
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What’s being dug up at Saifi Gardens?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 11, 2014
There appears to be a lot of interesting ruins being dug up at the new Safi Gardens development.…
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It could be nothing…

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 1, 2013
A friend recently sent me a picture of a major construction site going up in Hamra. It’s probably…
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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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