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Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk was a renowned English journalist and foreign correspondent who spent decades reporting from conflict zones across the Middle East and beyond, becoming known for his investigative approach to international affairs. His work and prolific output shaped how many people understood major global events, particularly those involving wars and political instability in regions like Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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- Born
- 1946-07-12
- Died
- 2020-10-30
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Islamic Extremism
- Robert Fisk on Afghanistan : Osama Bin Laden
- A One day symposium on "The British Question" erroneously called "The Irish Question", the Effect of Violence and Why Conservation Matters, Wednesday 25 February 1976, 9 : 30 a.m.-3
- Robert Fisk on Algeria
- Robert Fisk on Egypt
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Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946, Maidstone, Kent) is an English writer and journalist. Middle East correspondent of the The Independent, he has been based mainly in Beirut for more than 30 years. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Fisk">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 95,740x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,523x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,786x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 39,754x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,451x
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Quotes
- “Clinton has changed all that. By endowing bin Laden with his new title (i. e. America's Public Enemy Number One), he has given the Saudi dissident what he sought: recognition as the greatest enemy of Western "corruption," the leader of all resistance against US policy in the Middle East. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic, the way America now treats its opponents as if they were Hollywood bandits.”
- “And where, for God’s sake, does that wretched, utterly dishonest phrase “coalition forces” come from? There is no “coalition” in this Iraq war. There are the Americans and the British and a few Australians. That’s it.”
- “Two missiles from an American jet killed them all – by my estimate, more than 20 Iraqi civilians, torn to pieces before they could be 'liberated' by the nation that destroyed their lives. Who dares, I ask myself, to call this 'collateral damage'? 'It was an outrage, an obscenity', March 27, 2003”
- “Sitting in Baghdad, listening to the God-awful propaganda rhetoric of the Iraqis but watching the often promiscuous American and British air attacks, I have a suspicion that what's gone wrong has nothing to do with plans. Indeed, I suspect there is no real overall plan. Because I rather think that this war's foundations were based not on military planning but on ideology.”
- “Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.”
- “In reality, an American siege and occupation of the city would take weeks, perhaps months, but capture of the airport would allow troop-carrying aircraft to land. Since the city is 27 miles wide, an all-out assault could be an operation of epic proportions.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert William Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
As an international correspondent, he covered the civil wars in Lebanon, Algeria, and Syria, the Iran–Iraq conflict, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic revolution in Iran, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. An Arabic speaker, he was among the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he did three times between 1993 and 1997.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Fisk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.