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EEnvironment & Public Space

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Coast erasing in Batroun

byHabib Battah
Sep 9, 2014

A new project seems to be chewing away the coastline in Batroun. I was able to get a…

CCulture & Heritage

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Ruins near Bank Audi cleared?

byHabib Battah
Jun 27, 2014

Credit: Rayya Haddad Credit: Rayya Haddad Earlier this summer I posted pictures taken by my photographer friend Rayya…

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.