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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…

CCulture & Heritage

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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…

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.