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Month: October 2014

10 posts
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Save your bottles, support Lebanon’s glass industry

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 31, 2014
A lot of bottles will be piling up on the streets tonight. Soon they will be in landfills…
PPublic Services
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Can you help revive the trains?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 27, 2014
It seems unthinkable today, but did you know that there were plans to build a train line from…
RRule of Law
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Who is the army fighting in Tripoli?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 26, 2014
As battles rage in Tripoli, much of the focus seems to be on the fighting itself, the death…
CCulture & Heritage
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Demolitions ongoing in Furn el Hayek

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 22, 2014
This may be your last chance to see some of the oldest buildings in Furn El Hayek, including…
MMedia
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Remembering Serena

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 20, 2014
I didn’t know Serena Shim very well and I haven’t spoken to her in years. She was killed…
TTravel
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The long road from Gaza to Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 14, 2014
It was great to finally meet Karem Shehada (left) and Mohammed El-Madhoun (right) tonight. Mohammed is the editor…
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…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Beautiful Bkassine

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 6, 2014
If you haven’t visited the pine forests of Bkassine, you are long overdue. The village is part of…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Activists sue state over coast privatization

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 2, 2014
Activists alleged that the state has illegally provided tens of thousands of square meters of public shoreline to…
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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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