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Grand Sofar Hotel: A case for preservation

byHabib Battah
Sep 21, 2018

At a time when so many historic sites are being demolished in Lebanon, it’s refreshing to see that…

CCulture & Heritage

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Will Renzo Piano’s new tower demolish an ancient city buried under Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Jun 23, 2018

“We will find where you live,” a watchman yelled at me after taking a picture of ruins on…

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Residents vow to protect historic steps from developers

byHabib Battah
Nov 10, 2013

A protest was held last night in Mar Mikhael after residents learned that a historic passageway through their…

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Checkered Sanayeh building to come down?

byHabib Battah
Oct 21, 2013

For years, an odd checkered building has been lying abandoned across the street from the Ministry of Interior…

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We once made trains

byHabib Battah
Sep 14, 2013

Did you know Lebanon has over 100 years of locomotive history? Neither did I and that’s why I’m…

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.