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Amin Maalouf: a writer’s bedroom

byHabib Battah
Nov 11, 2012

There is no news about plans to demolish author Amin Maalouf’s former Badaro apartment, covered on this blog…

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Maalouf: “We don’t have a home in Beirut anymore”

byHabib Battah
Oct 30, 2012

I just got off the phone with Ziad Maalouf, a son of Lebanese literary giant Amin Maalouf, who’s…

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Lost Beirut: Long Beach Plage

byHabib Battah
Oct 24, 2009

Beaches are a sort of institution in Lebanon. For many, they symbolize the country’s relatively liberal social norms…

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.