MIT World Speakers

Dr. Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk has spent 27 years reporting from the Middle East, and has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War and the conflict in Algeria. He is a seven-time winner of the British International Journalist of the Year Award, a two-time winner of the Amnesty International UK Press Award, and a winner of the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA Prize for International Journalism. Dr. Fisk is the author of three books: The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster, In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, and Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War.