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One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

byHabib Battah
Sep 6, 2017

What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…

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The colonization of the frozen foods section has begun

byHabib Battah
May 6, 2014

It has also reached the aisles: Brace yourselves over the coming weeks when cars, shops and entire buildings…

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.