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Month: April 2015

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Job’s Wednesday: A Ras Beirut tradition

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 30, 2015
This week, Beirut residents celebrated Job’s Wednesday (Orba’at Ayoub) at Ramlet El Baida, a tradition that stretches back…
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Last week to enter Dalieh ideas competition

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 29, 2015
If you haven’t seen it, watch this old Egyptian movie clip about the future of Dalieh. Activists have…
CCulture & Heritage
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Losing Aabrine, erasing a neighborhood

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 23, 2015
Gabriel Daher, who is known for posting beautiful images of old Beirut, posted something a bit different today.…
CCulture & Heritage
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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…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Flags of Our Fathers

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 13, 2015
The following column was published in last month’s issue of Bold Magazine. I thought it would be appropriate…
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Ship spotting at Beirut port

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 1, 2015
Have you ever noticed all the military ships in the port of Beirut? Ever wonder who they belong…
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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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