Raghida Haddad
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Raghida Haddad
Executive Editor, Senior Lecturer
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Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon (SPNL)
+961 1 321800
+961 3 201607
Community/Lebanon Impact
As Executive Editor of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia (Environment & Development magazine, Raghida Haddad had a leading role in promoting environmental awareness in Lebanon and the Arab region, including the creation of more than 400 environmental clubs at schools. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) described Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia as an “influential magazine that triggered an unprecedented public awareness campaign in the Middle East… and created a pan-Arab environmental movement, which strongly helped place the environment on the agenda.”
As founding member of Lebanon Mountain Trail Association, and lecturer/trainer on environmental journalism, Raghida Haddad was instrumental in promoting environmental awareness and nature preservation.
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Education
Education:
- Bachelor in Science, 1975, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
- Lebanese Baccalaureat II, 1971, National College of Choueifat (SABIS), Lebanon.
Work history
Previous Professions:
- Executive Editor, since 1996, Environment & Development magazine.
- Professor of Environmental Media, since 2015, Lebanese University.
- Trainer and Coordinator, from 2006 to 2009, International Science Journalists' Association.
- Director, since 1996, Technical Publications.
- Managing Editor, from 1979 to 1993, Al-Mukhtar, the Arabic edition of Reader's Digest.
- Lecturer in Translation in Media, from 1990 to 2004, Saint Joseph University.
- Editor-in-Chief of Al-Hemaya magazine, from 2022 to present.
- Consultant and University Lecturer in Scientific Journalism, since 2009.
- Editor-in-Chief of Environment & Development, from 1995 to 2017.
Major Achievements
Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.):
- Editor and co-author of several environmental books, reports, and guides, including the Environmental Guide for Arab Schools for the Arab Environment Fund.
Major achievements:
- Only Arab journalist to have participated with international scientists in a journey to the Arctic witnessing the ice meltdown and global warming, summer 2008.
- Editor of several books about environmental issues and environmental education.
Exhibitions, lectures & performances:
- Senior lecturer on environmental journalism at the Lebanese University.
- Editor and co-author of several environmental books, reports and manuals, including AFED’s Environmental Guidebook for Arab SchooL.
Accomplishments
Distinctions:
- Stories of Women at AUB, book and exhibition, selected among 70 AUB women graduates who “have competed and succeeded in their careers and made an impact on the world,” from among thousands of women graduates since the American University of Beirut was founded in 1866.
Awards:
- Earth Journalism Award, by Internews (the global media organization), 2009.
Competences & Skills
Field(s) of Expertise:
- Environmental Journalism/education
- University Lecturing
- Science Journalism Training
Languages:
- Arabic
- English
- French