27/04/2006

Profile - Robert Fisk

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Robert Fisk is Britain's most highly decorated foreign correspondent. He has received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1995 and 1996. His specialty is the Middle East, where he has spent the last 23 years.

Currently the Beirut correspondent for the English newspaper "The Independent", Fisk has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war, and the conflict in Algeria. Fisk is the author of "The Point of No Return: The Strike which Broke the British in Ulster" (1975), "In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and The Great War For Civilisation". Fisk was the winner of the Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and in 2000 for his articles on NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. He was awarded the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA prize for international journalism.