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CCulture & Heritage
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Ghalghoul: a neighborhood erased

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 22, 2017
Before and after pictures were at the heart of the project to rebuild downtown Beirut following the Lebanese…
CCulture & Heritage
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How did ancient Beirut get tossed in a pile?

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 13, 2017
In the shadow of the towers of new Beirut, the ruins of ancient Beirut have literally been dismembered…
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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What happened to Beirut’s “Shoreline Walk”?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 14, 2016
One of the great things about the internet is that there is just so much floating around out…
CCulture & Heritage
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Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 10, 2015
  I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…
RRule of Law
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Private security confront police at Zaitunay Bay

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 25, 2015
Watch this private security man get right in the face of uniformed police officers. According to Al Jadeed,…
RRule of Law
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A yacht to pay the rent

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 7, 2015
A “super yacht” called Samar has just docked in Beirut’s Zaitunay Bay marina. At around 77 meters, it…
MMedia
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Top 10 weirdest Lebanese Christmas displays

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 21, 2014
I don’t usually do lists, but with all the awful news I have been covering lately about demolitions…
CCulture & Heritage
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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…
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…
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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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