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Beirut illustrated in “A City Neighboring the Earth”

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 1, 2017
Guest post by Dima Karam Amid a maze of pulsing lights, grayscale buildings are wedged together against the…
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Historic Laziza brewery demolition begins, can it be stopped?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 27, 2017
  A number of images are appearing on social media today documenting the demolition of one of Lebanon’s…
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Ruins cleared near port of Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 19, 2017
Following our last post about the vast ruins site uncovered near the “Beirut Digital District” construction site, a…
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Demolition of Art Deco building resumes, despite governor’s order

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 15, 2017
Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art…
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Ancient ruins uncovered in the ‘digital district’

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 5, 2017
A wide range of ancient structures have been uncovered in downtown Beirut that may provide important clues to…
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Let’s investigate Lebanon!

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 17, 2017
With environmental disasters and public service dysfunction everywhere you look, there’s never been a better time to investigate…
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Inside the new Lebanese National Library

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 11, 2016
Two years ago I posted about the near completion of construction work at Lebanon’s National Library. This week,…
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World’s oldest scale found in Lebanon, on display at AUB

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 25, 2016
The oldest known scale beam was recently found near Kfaraabida in North Lebanon and is now on display…
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One of world’s oldest cities found in North Lebanon, may become hotel

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 2, 2016
Perched on a hill along the rocky coast of North Lebanon, archaeologists have uncovered what they believe is…
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New discoveries in Byblos amid resort development

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 1, 2016
If archaeologists are right, our understanding of Byblos will soon change dramatically.  For years, people have assumed that…
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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 20 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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