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Beirut’s stolen coast and the growing fight to get it back

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 23, 2016
Activists have put together this great new video looking at how Beirut’s natural rocky coastline has basically been…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Does “high technology” mean garbage incineration for Beirut?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 16, 2016
  “I didn’t say incinerators, I said ‘high technology,'” Beirut’s mayor Jamal Itani told LBC at a recent…
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Above the law: Top 20 illegal election posters

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 6, 2016
An order from the Beirut governor to enforce laws banning campaign posters in public spaces seems to have fallen…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Game of Drones

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 11, 2016
The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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What happened to Beirut’s “Shoreline Walk”?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 14, 2016
One of the great things about the internet is that there is just so much floating around out…
CCulture & Heritage
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How the historic Adloun coast is becoming “Nabih Berri Port”

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 25, 2016
After several weeks of organizing and documentation by activists, the minister of environment has called for a halt…
CCulture & Heritage
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Abou Rakhousa and the politics of poverty

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 10, 2015
  I’m hearing a lot of people say street protests are dying out in Beirut, though there are…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Urban intervention at Boutros Road

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 5, 2015
Following resistance to a municipal plan to create a highway that would bulldoze a historic part of Beirut,…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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How activists reclaimed Beirut’s coast and why it matters

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 13, 2015
As I have written previously, a new boldness appears to be gaining strength among Lebanese activists in the…
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A new era of boldness?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 3, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVzgm6rJIW8&feature=youtu.be These last few weeks have seen a lot of unprecedented moments in Lebanon. We saw huge protests…
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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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