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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…

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Red cross exhibit on Lebanon’s wars

byHabib Battah
Apr 17, 2015

The Lebanese and International Red Cross are currently exhibiting a series of images, recordings and interactive installations chronicling…

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Deja Vu or not?

byHabib Battah
Jan 28, 2015

Israeli TV is on all Lebanese channels as we wait for Israel’s expected response to an attack on…

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National Library opening soon?

byHabib Battah
Nov 4, 2014

For years now, construction has slowly been moving forward on the National Library project in Sanayeh. Now with…

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Lebanese TV rivals unite for Gaza

byHabib Battah
Jul 22, 2014

Lebanese TV channels are often at war with one another and the battles go far beyond ratings. They…

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.