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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Major project by celebrity architect revealed in Dalieh

  • byHabib Battah
  • Dec 15, 2014
Activists have claimed that a multi-million dollar real estate project by world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas is being planned…
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Beirut Bodies in Public

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 10, 2014
It’s not every day that you see young people walking the streets of Hamra, sketching on pieces of…
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Minister takes stand against fencing of coast

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 8, 2014
The Environment minister’s Facebook status above was posted this afternoon and comes in the wake of weeks of activism,…
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The fencing of Dalieh

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 6, 2014
The creative people at 5Ampere have just come up with this striking piece of protest art. The caption…
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The Caves and Pools of Dalieh: Endangered?

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 16, 2014
Ah the post card image of Raouche. Now imagine it surrounded by a giant fenced off marina, full…
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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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