Watch your step

byHabib Battah
Sep 12, 2013
1 minute read

Small piece of advice if you are visiting Beirut’s latest, greatest mega-mall “Beirut City Center”

If you use sidewalks–and few Beirutis do– you may want to watch your step. And definitely bring a flashlight if you are going for an evening stroll:

Habib Battah

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.