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Month: February 2015

9 posts
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Ode to AUB

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 28, 2015
I don’t usually write poetry but here goes… The beautiful trees, the bountiful sky The occasional battleship passing…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Resisting Zaitunay

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 23, 2015
It’s still hard to believe that the once publicly accessible St. George Bay has been rebranded as the…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Political posters removed except…

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 21, 2015
There has been much fanfare about the removal of political signs and posters from Beirut, as part of…
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…
MMedia
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Blackface on Kuwait TV

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 12, 2015
It’s sad to see that the racist tradition of Blackface is still alive and well on Kuwait TV.…
MMedia
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The Washington Post changes terrible headline

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 11, 2015
  The headline above was published this morning by The Washington Post at 11:05 AM as seen in…
MMedia
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At war with a prince

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 10, 2015
In the video above, LBC TV show host Joe Maalouf takes multiple shots a Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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From sewer to sea

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 6, 2015
I was on my way to drop off my recycling at Ziad’s recycling plant near the port of…
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AUB talk: Digital accountability in Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 1, 2015
I will be looking back at my reporting on activism in Lebanon over the last few years in…
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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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