waste management Archives

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The stench of Costa Brava

byHabib Battah
Sep 17, 2016

No picture can capture the absolutely vile, all-encompassing stench coming from the Costa Brava dump, which is conveniently…

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…

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.