public performance Archives

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Can Seal help ‘legalize’ public performance in Beirut?

byHabib Battah
Dec 15, 2016

A lot of you have probably seen the now viral cell phone video shot in the Beirut Souks…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Oud on the corniche

byHabib Battah
Mar 9, 2015

As winter begins to fade, it’s a beautiful time for a walk along the corniche. Street performers are…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Beirut Bodies in Public

byHabib Battah
Oct 10, 2014

It’s not every day that you see young people walking the streets of Hamra, sketching on pieces of…

CCulture & Heritage

4 minute read

Public performance banned in Downtown Beirut

byHabib Battah
Nov 12, 2011

I’ve experienced many disturbing episodes in the corporate-owned and operated space known as Beirut Central District (BCD) or…

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.