Ziad Abi Chaker Archives

EEnvironment & Public Space

4 minute read

Lebanon’s garbage crisis: a blessing in disguise?

byHabib Battah
Aug 5, 2015

I took this photo about a month ago, well before the start of the current garbage crisis that has…

EEnvironment & Public Space

2 minute read

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

2 minute read

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…

Who Am I?

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.