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Robert Fisk

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

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

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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.

Robert Fisk’s World: You don't need colour to see the full bloody horror of war

Saturday, 17 October 2009

I took black-and-white pictures of the Bosnian war to bleed colour out of the world

Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians in Qalandyia, south of Ramallah, on the West Bank

Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistake

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Robert Fisk: The US president received an award in the faint hope that he will succeed in the future. That's how desperate the Middle East situation has become.

The right photographer can strip a leader's power

Saturday, 10 October 2009

Robert Fisk: Karsh of Ottawa was not afraid to make his sitter into a clown.

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