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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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Saifi Plaza dig progress

byHabib Battah
Oct 11, 2014

I recently got a better look at the ruins discovered at the “Saifi Plaza” project, which I have…

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Update: New photos inside Saifi dig

byHabib Battah
Aug 22, 2014

Soon after posting about the ruins discovered at the Saifi Plaza excavation, an activist got in touch over…

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Ruins cleared at Saifi Plaza

byHabib Battah
Aug 20, 2014

There appears to be nothing left of a major downtown Beirut excavation that took place here a month…

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Ruins discovered under Saifi 477

byHabib Battah
Jul 30, 2014

It’s not been easy to post about Beirut with all the carnage happening in Gaza. But that doesn’t…

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.