Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was an English writer and journalist. A Middle East correspondent intermittently since 1976 for various media, since 1989 Fisk was a correspondent for The Independent, based in Beirut.
An Arabic speaker he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did three times between 1993 and 1997.
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His 2005 work, The Great War for Civilisation, with its criticism of Western and Israeli approaches to the Middle East, was generally well received by critics and students of international affairs and is perhaps his best-known work. However, the reviewer for The Guardian, the former British ambassador to Libya, Oliver Miles, was less enthusiastic. He wrote that "a deplorable number of mistakes" in the 1,366 pages long book "undermine the reader's confidence", and that "vigilant editing and ruthless pruning could perhaps have made two or three good short books out of this one".
- The Point of No Return: The Strike which Broke the British in Ulster (1975). London: Times Books/Deutsch. Template:ISBN
- In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945 (2001). London: Gill & Macmillan. Template:ISBN (1st ed. 1983).
- Pity the Nation : Lebanon at War (3rd ed. 2001). London: Oxford University Press; xxi, 727 pages. Template:ISBN (1st ed. was 1990).
- The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (October 2005) London. Fourth Estate; xxvi, 1366 pages. Template:ISBN
- The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings (2008) London, Fourth Estate Template:ISBN
- Robert Fisk on Algeria: Why Algeria's Tragedy Matters (2013) Independent Print Limited Template:ISBN
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Fisk produced a three-part series titled From Beirut To Bosnia in 1993 which Fisk says was an attempt "to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West. Fisk says that the Discovery Channel did not show a repeat of the films, after initially showing them in full, due to a letter campaign launched by pro-Israel groups such as CAMERA.
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