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EEnvironment & Public Space

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Nowruz celebrations defy the barricades

byHabib Battah
Mar 22, 2015

Nowruz celebrations fell on a stormy Saturday this year so only a few in the Kurdish community came…

CCulture & Heritage

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Celebrate Nowruz, reclaim the coast

byHabib Battah
Mar 20, 2015

As is custom, the Persian holiday of Nowruz will be celebrated tomorrow on the rocky coast of Dalieh…

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.