During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time) to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasions of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq. Now he brings his knowledge, his firsthand experience and his intimate understanding of the Middle East to a book that addresses the full complexity of its political history and its current state of affairs.
--Random House Publishing
Robert William Fisk (12 July 1946 – 30 October 2020) was a British journalist, writer and political scientist. 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. Fisk, who worked as the Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent since 1989, received many journalism awards, including the Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year seven times. His books include *The Point of No Return* (1975), *In Time of War* (1985), *Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War* (1990), *The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East* (2005),[1] and *Syria: Descent Into the Abyss* (2015).
