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Hacking the Saudi narrative, Lebanese style

  • byHabib Battah
  • Nov 15, 2017
Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer. I’m not a fan of quoting cliches, but in…
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One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 6, 2017
What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
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Campaign to save “Red House”

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 17, 2016
It seems everywhere you turn in Hamra, there is a new tower coming up. None of them affordable…
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Fiber on the way?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 12, 2015
Late last year I noticed a couple of technicians from Ogero– the state agency that runs the country’s…
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Jack’s (abandoned) Hideaway

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 16, 2015
This place has been closed for as long as I can remember. It’s located on the bottom floor…
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Who needs a sidewalk?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 25, 2015
When you can have a cafe instead… You can’t even walk in the street because they have tables…
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Hamra is back to normal except…

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jun 20, 2014
… for the “Hawker” private security guard staring and squinting at me while taking this picture (because I…
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“This is not Ariel Sharon’s supermarket”

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 27, 2014
So reads the banner above, placed just outside an old supermarket on Makdessi street in Hamra. A handful…
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The colonization of the frozen foods section has begun

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 6, 2014
It has also reached the aisles: Brace yourselves over the coming weeks when cars, shops and entire buildings…
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Facebook-inspired design

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 2, 2014
Both establishments pictured here in Hamra. Not sure if a “like” buys you a discount. 
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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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