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Preserving the past: Metro al Madina

byHabib Battah
Nov 8, 2012

Having witnessed the destruction of so many Beirut buildings over the past two decades, it’s refreshing to see…

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A few days left to save the Maalouf house?

byHabib Battah
Nov 5, 2012

The developers that plan to demolish the house of Lebanese literary legend Amin Maalouf have agreed to suspend…

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End of the highway

byHabib Battah
Nov 4, 2012

Majestic, picturesque and just a little bit dangerous at night with no signs to warn you the road ends…

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Subversive costume success

byHabib Battah
Nov 1, 2012

I’m pleased to announce that my costume won the Halloween competition at Hamra’s Metro Al Madina night club…

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.