ROBERT FISK

Protagonist of THIS IS NOT A MOVIE. Guest of the online meeting. 

Robert Fisk has been Middle East Correspondent for The Times and The Independent of London since 1976 and has won more than 15 international awards for his reports from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Algeria.  He reported from the Bosnian war and Kosovo --  covering the entire area of the old Ottoman Empire.  Fisk, born in England in 1946, holds a PhD in politics from Trinity College, Dublin.  He is the author of two books on Middle East history – Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilisation – and lectures at universities in Canada, the USA and Europe.