Commentators

Partly Sunny with Showers 8° London Hi 11°C / Lo 5°C

Robert Fisk

Dubai has shocked investors by asking for a debt standstill at Dubai World, the government's flagship holding company

India may hold whip hand in this power game

Robert Fisk: The biggest merchants in Dubai are Indian and they stand to gain as the emirate falters.

Recently by Robert Fisk

UN and British embassy officials recover the remains of Alec Collett at Lebanon's Bekaa valley

Reasons for Alec Collett's death buried in Bekaa

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Robert Fisk: Even Gaddafi has been airbrushed from the body-recovery story - after all he is now our friend.

Robert Fisk’s World: Scars of the past reveal Britain's doomed empire in Hong Kong

Saturday, 21 November 2009

By the time the British surrendered in 1941, thousands of civilians had been killed

Robert Fisk's World: Hatchets and hostages – the old days of Mao's revolution

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Grey's experience is painfully similar to those of his later colleagues in Beirut

Will they still be read - and understood - without being translated into modern computer-speak?: Edmund Blunden, Margot Asquith; Ernst Junger, the voices of the Fiorst World War that have echoed down the generations and have influenced the language we use today

The Great War and words to remember

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Robert Fisk on Armistice Day: Poets and soldiers recorded the horror of the Great War in writing that has affected generations. But as English evolves in the digital age, will their powerful words soon stop making sense?

Free podcast download: The lost art of reportage

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Was there a golden age for international correspondents? Are current affairs now largely brought to us in dumbed down soundbites? Who now sets the framework for coverage of world events?

Robert Fisk's World: The German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up to – and failed

Saturday, 7 November 2009

The victors write the history, so Frobenius's adventures are today virtually unknown

Robert Fisk: America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

As in Vietnam, Karzai is going to rule over an equally tiny island of corruption

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines

Saturday, 31 October 2009

News bureau chiefs in Cairo know who their local spies are but can’t dismiss them

Robert Fisk’s World: Beirut's history can't be reduced to a mere 'heritage trail'

Saturday, 24 October 2009

The Romans were here. The Crusaders were here, and then the Muslims came

An Nahar campaigned against plans to rebuild downtown Beirut

End of an era for Lebanon's free press

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Robert Fisk: Once a bastion of journalistic independence, Beirut's newspapers are losing their edge.

More robert fisk:

Most popular

 
sponsored links: