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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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Activists sue state over coast privatization

byHabib Battah
Oct 2, 2014

Activists alleged that the state has illegally provided tens of thousands of square meters of public shoreline to…

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.