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CCulture & Heritage

4 minute read

Roman city wall removed from Beirut site

byHabib Battah
Sep 13, 2018

A rare and well-preserved ancient Roman wall that once surrounded Beirut has been dismantled. Photography of the site…

CCulture & Heritage

12 minute read

Ancient ruins uncovered in the ‘digital district’

byHabib Battah
Mar 5, 2017

A wide range of ancient structures have been uncovered in downtown Beirut that may provide important clues to…

CCulture & Heritage

2 minute read

Clues to Roman Beirut at Saifi dig?

byHabib Battah
Jun 5, 2015

Roman Berytus was one of the most lavish cities in the empire, featuring a massive chariot race track…

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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.