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Ras Beirut

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One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 6, 2017
What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
CCulture & Heritage
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Campaign to save “Red House”

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 17, 2016
It seems everywhere you turn in Hamra, there is a new tower coming up. None of them affordable…
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Fiber on the way?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 12, 2015
Late last year I noticed a couple of technicians from Ogero– the state agency that runs the country’s…
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…
CCulture & Heritage
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Jack’s (abandoned) Hideaway

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 16, 2015
This place has been closed for as long as I can remember. It’s located on the bottom floor…
CCulture & Heritage
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Lost interiors: Inside Lords Hotel for the last time

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 26, 2015
I managed to capture the final moments of Lord’s Hotel this afternoon. The gradual destruction of this 1950s…
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Lost in transliteration

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 5, 2015
In Arabic “جو” (pronounced jao or jaaw) means atmosphere or mood. Somehow it doesn’t convey the same ‘mood’…
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Lord’s Hotel coming down

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 22, 2014
This old Ras Beirut hotel has been abandoned for a few years and now looks to be coming…
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Rose House opening to the public

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 14, 2014
Next week, Beirut’s storied “Rose House”, which sits on a rare green hill overlooking the Mediterranean, will be…
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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.
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