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Ghalghoul: a neighborhood erased

Before and after pictures were at the heart of the project to rebuild downtown Beirut following the Lebanese…
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One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
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Painting Beirut’s slums

When we hear about real estate developers working in poor neighborhoods, it often means they are tearing them…
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US Embassy delivers mixed messages on Beirut safety

A couple of weeks ago the US embassy released its latest travel warning on Lebanon, as usual urging…
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Hate crimes cannot be tolerated in Lebanon

No citizen is safe when brutality and hate crimes are tolerated. When contacted on Twitter this evening, the…
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CNN’s “The History of Comedy” features no Arabs

CNN has an interesting show airing in the USA right now. It traces the relationship between American history…
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The violent face of real estate development in Lebanon

An LBC camera crew has become the latest victim of violent Lebanese real estate companies seizing the country’s…
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Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sites

Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support…
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How did ancient Beirut get tossed in a pile?

In the shadow of the towers of new Beirut, the ruins of ancient Beirut have literally been dismembered…
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Beirut illustrated in “A City Neighboring the Earth”

Guest post by Dima Karam Amid a maze of pulsing lights, grayscale buildings are wedged together against the…
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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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