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Tearing down Amin Maalouf’s house

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 3, 2013
Here are some photos of the current demolition happening at the former home of Amin Maalouf, one of…
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Amin Maalouf: a writer’s bedroom

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 11, 2012
There is no news about plans to demolish author Amin Maalouf’s former Badaro apartment, covered on this blog…
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Preserving the past: Metro al Madina

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 8, 2012
Having witnessed the destruction of so many Beirut buildings over the past two decades, it’s refreshing to see…
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A few days left to save the Maalouf house?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 5, 2012
The developers that plan to demolish the house of Lebanese literary legend Amin Maalouf have agreed to suspend…
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Censoring Beirut heritage

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jul 26, 2011
It won’t be long before another historic building vanishes without a trace in Beirut. As one would imagine,…
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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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