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Game of Drones

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 11, 2016
The eight-month old battle between the Lebanese state and anti-corruption activists has taken many forms: from street protests…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Invisible garbage, visible activism

  • byHabib Battah
  • Aug 15, 2015
One wealthy mountain suburb seems to have developed a unique technology to fight Lebanon’s garbage crisis. Or is…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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From sewer to sea

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 6, 2015
I was on my way to drop off my recycling at Ziad’s recycling plant near the port of…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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How to start recycling in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 16, 2015
  As the video above states, a new initiative is finally allowing everyone to recycle in Lebanon. Beginning…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Save your bottles, support Lebanon’s glass industry

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 31, 2014
A lot of bottles will be piling up on the streets tonight. Soon they will be in landfills…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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What fire? Local news didn’t see it.

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 27, 2012
(*Update below) As I type this, an Armageddon-shaped black cloud of smoke hangs over Beirut, caused by a…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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Fires not considered fires by Lebanese authorities

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 26, 2012
This afternoon, smoke from multiple fires billowed out of a green valley in Mtaileb, a hillside Beirut suburb,…
EEnvironment & Public Space
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How (not) to report pollution in Lebanon

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 15, 2012
For much of this afternoon, a luxury residential apartment building was transformed into a pollution spewing factory fit…
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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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