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Help save this place

byHabib Battah
Feb 23, 2014

The green space above is one of the only surviving orchards in Beirut, but the municipality wants to…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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The “non-existent” trees of Boutros

byHabib Battah
Jun 9, 2013

“The flora and fauna are virtually nonexistent. There are a few trees in the area, no water tables.”…

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.