So I’m waiting for my haloum sandwich at Jarjoura Dairy in Chtoura, Bekaa–never tried it before and place looks dated...
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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.
It’s a question I get asked a lot lately, most recently during a radio interview I did this morning. With...
The Lebanese state (which literally cannot keep the streetlights on at night where hundreds die in highway collisions every year)...
‘We Made Every Living Thing from Water’ (وجعلنا من الماء كل شيء حي) will have its premiere at 6pm today...
At a time when so many historic sites are being demolished in Lebanon, it’s refreshing to see that some in...
Only a small pool of water is retained in the massive multi-million dollar Mseilha dam, seen in these pictures from...
Many have asked if the revolts taking place across Lebanon will succeed. But they have already succeeded at taking away...
A version of this story was published in Monocle Magazine, August 2018 By Habib Battah Just across the skyscraper-lined Bay...
If you live in Lebanon, you would probably fall out of your chair if I told you government ministers were...
A rare and well-preserved ancient Roman wall that once surrounded Beirut has been dismantled. Photography of the site is not...