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CCulture & Heritage

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Minister says ruins to be preserved after photos leaked

byHabib Battah
May 21, 2013

Daily Star In a surprise announcement, Culture Minister Gaby Layoun said today that ancient Roman and Byzantine ruins…

CCulture & Heritage

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Possible Roman gate and road found in Beirut dig

byHabib Battah
May 17, 2013

This is a panoramic shot of a dig that has been going on for several years in Riad…

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.