Ramlet el Baida Archives

CCulture & Heritage

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Demolition of Art Deco building resumes, despite governor’s order

byHabib Battah
Mar 15, 2017

Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it back

byHabib Battah
Nov 23, 2016

Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Job’s Wednesday: A Ras Beirut tradition

byHabib Battah
Apr 30, 2015

This week, Beirut residents celebrated Job’s Wednesday (Orba’at Ayoub) at Ramlet El Baida, a tradition that stretches back…

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.