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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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How Lebanon blew its Marshall Plan and other sobering figures

byHabib Battah
Mar 8, 2014

Former Labor Minister Charbel Nahas provided some sobering statistics at today’s City Debates conference at AUB. Chief among…

EEnvironment & Public Space

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Erasing memory in downtown Beirut

byHabib Battah
Jan 19, 2014

A waiter surveys a row of empty tables beneath the Place De L’Etoile clock tower seen on so…

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Best shawarma this side of Damascus

byHabib Battah
Oct 2, 2013

Apparently Syrians used to drive for miles just to eat here, and now Al Farouk, one of the…

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.