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Inside Beit Beirut

byHabib Battah
May 17, 2016

Beit Beirut, Lebanon’s first memory museum, is finally getting ready to open its doors. After at least a…

CCulture & Heritage

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Remembering Karantina… who does?

byHabib Battah
Jan 20, 2016

Today Karantina is home to the massive concert and frequent rave venue “Forum De Beyrouth,” where Snoop Dogg,…

CCulture & Heritage

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Tramway exhibit this week

byHabib Battah
Dec 1, 2014

I just stumbled upon this interesting Al Jadeed TV report about Lebanon’s old trolley car or “tramway” system.…

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.