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CCulture & Heritage

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Inside the new Lebanese National Library

byHabib Battah
Nov 11, 2016

Two years ago I posted about the near completion of construction work at Lebanon’s National Library. This week,…

CCulture & Heritage

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National Library opening soon?

byHabib Battah
Nov 4, 2014

For years now, construction has slowly been moving forward on the National Library project in Sanayeh. Now with…

MMedia

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The fire of fear and political opportunism

byHabib Battah
Jan 4, 2014

It has only been hours since the mysterious torching of a priest’s library in Tripoli and politicians have…

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.