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Robert Fisk
English writer and journalist (1946-2020)
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1946
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2020
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Trinity College Dublin, University of Lancaster, Yardley Court, Sutton Valence School
occupation: journalist, historian, writer, war correspondent
award received: Jacob's Award, Amnesty International UK Media Award, Orwell Prize, Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, Honorary doctor of Ghent University, Premi Godó de Periodisme, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, James Cameron Memorial Trust Award, Foreign Reporter of the Year, honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin, honorary doctorate of Lancaster University, honorary doctor of Queen's University Belfast, honorary doctor of the University of Kent, honorary doctorate from the American University of Beirut
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk
Robert Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was a writer and journalist who held British and Irish citizenship. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians. His stance earned him praise from many commentators, but was condemned by others.As an international correspondent, he covered the civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria, the Iran–Iraq conflict, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. An Arabic speaker, he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did three times between 1993 and 1997.He began his journalistic career at the Newcastle Chronicle and then the Sunday Express. From there, he went to work for The Times as a correspondent in Northern Ireland, Portugal and the Middle East; in the last role, he based himself in Beirut intermittently from 1976. After 1989, he worked for The Independent. Fisk received many British and international journalism awards, including the Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times.Books by Fisk include The Point of No Return (1975), In Time of War (1985), Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (1990), The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (2005), and Syria: Descent Into the Abyss (2015).
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11The Politics of Anti-Semitism
book by Alexander Cockburn
wd:Q7757680author: Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Michael Neumann, Lenni Brenner, Uri Avnery, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Edward Said
2003
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Arab Spring Then and Now: From Hope to Despair
inv:026a1856df319a2fe3c14c4db60dd28bauthor: Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn
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Syria: Descent Into the Abyss
inv:026a1856df319a2fe3c14c4db60df70fauthor: Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn, Kim Sengupta
The point of no return : the strike which broke the British in Ulster
inv:22ed4eeaf5246b7d6cdb2ce399a65458author: Robert Fisk
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In time of war : Ireland, Ulster and the price of neutrality 1939-45
inv:3c387d07a11148ddc32d17d9185e8dadauthor: Robert Fisk