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Lord’s Hotel coming down

byHabib Battah
Dec 22, 2014

This old Ras Beirut hotel has been abandoned for a few years and now looks to be coming…

RRule of Law

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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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Vintage Hamra shopping center

byHabib Battah
Nov 9, 2013

This was probably all lit up Las Vegas style in the 1960s. But now the bulbs are burned…

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Lost Beirut: Long Beach Plage

byHabib Battah
Oct 24, 2009

Beaches are a sort of institution in Lebanon. For many, they symbolize the country’s relatively liberal social norms…

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.