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Urban intervention at Boutros Road

byHabib Battah
Nov 5, 2015

Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Panel to challenge Boutros Road

byHabib Battah
Aug 23, 2014

The Civil Coalition Against the Boutros Highway is hosting a panel and discussion this Tuesday on the battle…

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.