Do you know who Robert Fisk is?

Robert Fisk is a famous British journalist, who was born on 12 July 1946 in Maidstone, Kent. Robert got his B.A in English Literature from “Lancaster University” in 1968 and his PhD in Political Science from “Trinity College” in 1985.

He first worked on the Sunday Express diary column then; he decided to move to The Times as Belfast correspondent .Now, he is working as a correspondent in The Independent, his first report in The Independent was published on 28 April 1989. During his working in The Independent, he interviewed “Osama bin Laden” three times between 1994 and 1997.

He spent more than 30 years living in and reporting from the region.Fisk has been living in Beirut since 1976, and was present in Beirut throughout the Lebanese civil war. He was one of the first journalists to visit the scene of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Fisk won a lot of awards the last one was in July, 2008, when Trinity College Dublin awarded him a second, honorary, Doctorate. The New York Times described Fisk as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk