Robert Fisk (born in 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is an English journalist and author. He is the Middle East correspondent of the UK newspaper The Independent, has spent more than 30 years living in and reporting from the region, and won awards for his work. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Fourth Estate 2005.
A War That Won't End Interview with Robert Fisk on the War in Syria by Michael Hartlep, Qantara.de, 21 May 2013
The Armenian hero whom Turkey would prefer to forget, The Independent, 12 May 2013
Robert Fisk on Syria's Civil War, Chemical Weapons "Theater" & Obama's Backing of Israeli Strikes, Democracy Now! 7 May 2013 (video)
The truth is that after Israel's air strikes, we are involved, The Independent, 5 May 2013
How Achille Lauro hijackers were seduced by high life, The Independent, 5 May 2013
War reporting - a veteran's guide: Shot at, seized by a murderous mob and chased by kidnappers..., The Independent, 2 May 2013
Assad sends his feared militia squads to the battlefront, The Independent, 29 April 2013
Syria and sarin gas: US claims have a very familiar ring, The Independent, 28 April 2013
This was supposed to be a 'game changer' week in Syria, so why is it all the same? The Independent, 28 April 2013
They may be fighting for Syria, not Assad. They may also be winning, The Independent, 26 April 2013
Inside Damascus - memoirs reveal the Hafez approach, The Independent, 21 April 2013
The 9,000 unsung heroes working on bot sides of Syri's front line, The Indepndent, 19 April 2013
Beware wishful thinking. Assad isn't going soon, The Independent, 18 April 2013
At a checkpoint, watching for bombs, the talk turned to religion, The Independent, 16 April 2013
‘We don't really know what war is like. We haven't seen it yet', The Independent, 15 April 2013
President Assad's army is starting to call the shots in Syria, The Independent, 14 April 2013
A barbaric war throws up a horror story that makes villains of all, The Independent, 14 April 2013
Mobiles become weapons as tactics change in Syria's new phoney war, The Independent, 12 April 2013
The war has reached Damascus, but for now it is not a warzone, The Independent, 11 April 2013
Khalil Raad's Palestinian pictures chart the history - and the tragedy, The Independent, 8 April 2013
When George Bush invaded Iraq, life imitated art, The Independent, 31 March 2013
Lebanon is like a Rolls Royce with square wheels… it has a lot that's worthy of praise but it doesn't run so well. The Independent, 24 March 2013
Bahrain hit by doctors' desertion, The Independent, 24 March 2013
World Focus: The Eyes Of The World Are Trained On Israel. But Will There Be Anything To See?, The Independent, 19 March 2013
The cost of war must be measured by human tragedy, not artefacts, The Independent, 18 March 2013
A misty-eyed farewell to Lebanon's smoky nargile dens, The Independent, 10 March 2013
John Kerry wants the Gulf to support the Syrian rebels. But which rebels? The soft, safe ones? Or those horrible, 'terrorist' Islamists?, The Independent, 5 March 2013
Alawite history reveals the complexities of Syria that West does not understand, The Independent, 4 March 2013
The West babbles on, and Assad is the winner, The Independent, 1 March 2013
Mystery of a death on the Beirut road, The Independent, 24 February 2013
War on terror is the West's new religion, The Independent, 24 February 2013
How Canada, land of political correctness, became the latest front in the Syrian civil war, The Independent, 10 February 2013
The murder of Shokri Belaid is a sign that Tunisia's 'Jasmine Revolution' is turning dark, The Independent, 6 February 2013
From the Papal monasteries to Timbuktu, absolutism lives on, The Independent, 3 February 2013
From Algeria, a lesson in how to bypass democracy, The Independent, 27 January 2013
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, The New Face Of Al-Qa'ida (And Why He's Nothing Like Osama Bin Laden), The Independent, 24 January 2013
Ben Affleck, Argo and a chilling portrait of suspicion and vengeance in post-revolutionary Tehran, The Independent, 20 January 2013
Algeria, Mali, and why this week has looked like an obscene remake of earlier Western interventions, The Independent, 18 January 2013
Algeria: the slaughter of the good and bad at the In Amenas gas plant was utterly predictable, The Independent, 17 January 2013
It sounds like a replay of Algeria's civil war. Don't bet on a happy ending, The Independent, 16 January 2013
The retrial that will seal the fate of Hosni Mubarak, The Independent, 13 January 2013
Anonymous trolls are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate the gutless journalism of the New York Times, BBC, and CNN, The Independent, 10 January 2013
Army was the target audience of President's theatre at the opera house, The Independent, 6 January 2013
Why the numbers game doesn't add up in the killing fields of Syria, The Independent, 6 January 2013
Could Saudi Arabia be next?, The Independent, 31 December 2012
Does Arab progress founder on an ossified language? The Independent, 31 December 2012
A word of advice about the Middle East – we've reached the ‘tipping point' with cliches, The Independent, 23 December 2012
Finucane, Sami al-Saadi and Khaled el-Musri: will we once again just 'move on' from the murky conduct of MI6 and the CIA? The Independent, 16 December 2012
A monument to evil that can teach the modern world, The Independent, 9 December 2012
Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and the truth about chemical weapons and who may or may not have them, The Independent, 8 December 2012
Syria's elite used to believe the bureaucracy would continue even after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad. After Makdissi's defection, that has changed, The Independent, 4 December 2012
A feminist, patriot and widow who hankers after the values of an earlier age, The Independent, 2 December 2012
A historic triumph: Palestine is recognised as a state by the UN and democracies in Europe - though not by America. Will David Cameron stand with them? The Independent, 29 November 2012
Did Israel murder Yasser Arafat with Polonium-210? Some questions about his death won't go away, The Independent, 27 November 2012
The suffering of Sderot: how its true inhabitants were wiped from Israel's maps and memories, The Independent, 26 November 2012
The latest war with Hamas over Gaza proves Benjamin Netanyahu is leading Israel into isolation, The Independent, 25 November 2012
One of Israel's great leftist warriors wants peace with Hamas and Gaza - but does the Knesset? The Independent, 23 November 2012
What was it all for? The murder of Palestinians and Israelis is just a prelude to the next Gaza war, The Independent, 22 November 2012
We are all Israelis now: its brutality, unlike Syria's, is fought in the name of the West's war on terror, The Independent, 20 November 2012
As Israel and Hamas open the 'gates of hell' in Gaza, all the journalistic cliches of war are here again, The Independent, 18 November 2012
If Assad goes, Hezbollah will be alone in the Levant – much to the delight of Israel, The Independent, 11 November 2012
The Case of the Swedish weapons in Syria, The Independent, 4 November 2012
Whichever of Obama or Romney wins, US dealings with the Arab world will change, The Independent, 28 October 2012
Rached Ghannouchi says he doesn't want an Islamic state in Tunisia. Can he prove his critics wrong?, The Independent, 24 October 2012
The ordinary victims lost in the noise of Beirut's latest big story, The Independent, 22 October 2012
The legacy of imperialism still haunts every street in Rome, The Independent, 22 October 2012
Photograph links Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide, The Independent, 21 October 2012
Plucky little Turkey standing up to evil Syria? It's not as simple as that, The Independent, 8 October 2012
Sanctions hurt Syria and Iran but regimes can ride on regardless, The Independent, 5 October 2012
These 'savages' created some of history's finest art, The Independent, 1 October 2012
Netanyahu's warning reveals his moments of memory loss, The Independent, 29 September 2012
The Long View: Beyond the Alexandria Quartet: a 'lost' Lawrence Durrell novel reveals the author's Israel bias, The Independent, 24 September 2012
Al-Qa'ida cashes in as the scorpion gets in among the good guys, The Independent, 17 September 2012
The forgotten massacre, The Independent, 15 September 2012
The provocateurs know politics and religion don't mix, The Independent, 13 September 2012
'No one likes violence...But people know there is no going back. If they return home, they will die one by one', The Independent, 10 September 2012
In Maaloula, the past has relevance to Syria's tragic present, The Independent, 3 September 2012
Syria's road from jihad to prison, The Independent on Sunday, 2 September 2012
Another week in the violent, murderous and divided world of Syria, The Independent, 1 September 2012
Minister for information who wants to go straight, The Independent, 31 August 2012
Inside Daraya - how a failed prisoner swap turned into a massacre, The Independent, 29 August 2012
Exclusive: ‘We believe that the USA is the mjor player against Syria and the rest are its instruments', The Independent, 28 August 2012
The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn't, The Independent, 27 August 2012
The bloody truth about Syria's uncivil war, The Independent on Sunday, 26 August 2012
Syria's newspapers trumpet an army victory but the sound of shellfire tells the true story, The Independent, 25 August 2012
Aleppo's poor get caught in the crossfire of Syria's civil war, The Independent, 24 August 2012
'Rebel army? They're a gang of foreigners', The Independent, 23 August 2012
No power can bring down the Syrian regime', The Independent, 22 August 2012
They snipe at us then run and hide in sewers, The Independent, 21 August 2012
UN leaves Syria to its bloody fate, The Independenton Sunday, 19 August 2012
Damascus: A deserted city, a deserting UN, and a storm about to break, The Independent, 18 August 2012
Syria's conflict has crossed the border, and the ghost of Lebanon's civil war returns, The Independent, 17 August 2012
In the end, all Israel and her Western allies want to do is to break Iran – via Syria, The Independent, 13 August 2012
Syria welcomed them – now it has spat them out, The Independent, 11 August 2012
Hijab defection drives wedge into fractured party, The Independent, 7 August 2012
Assad's merciless assault risks wiping out both his country's future – and its past, The Independent, 6 August 2012
Syria's ancient treasures pulverised, The Independent on Sunday, 5 August 2012
For the minorities, even neutrality is unsafe, The Independent, 30 July 2012
Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy, The Independent on Sunday, 29 July 2012
Yes, there's violence, but some Syrians think it's time to return, The Independent, 26 July 2012
If Alawites are turning against Assad then his fate is sealed, The Independent, 23 July 2012
Sectarianism bites into Syria's rebels, The Independent, 22 July 2012
Assassinations on an epic scale – but Syria rebels will not claim their greatest prize, The Independent, 19 July 2012
Where is a Goya who could chronicle today's conflict? The Independent, 16 July 2012
Beirut's banks – and a money trail from Syria to Iran, The Independent, 12 July 2012
A truce is declared in Egypt and the revolution continues – for now, The Independent, 11 July 2012
The rebel sheikh defying Hezbollah to take aim at Assad, The Independent, 9 July 2012
Syria Will Have A Long, Bloody War by Robert Fisk and Tony Jones, ZNet, 2 July 2012
President Morsi, a rigged ballot and a fox's tale that has all of Cairo abuzz, The Independent, 2 July 2012
Western agreement 'could leave Syria in Assad's hands for two more years', The Independent, 29 June 2012
Egypt has no constitution, parliament... or control, The Independent, 26 June 2012
Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him, The Independent, 25 June 2012
Late for the revolution, Muslim Brotherhood take over Tahrir Square, The Independent, 23 June 2012
Only the military are guaranteed victory in this Egyptian election, The Independent, 21 June 2012
Mubarak's 300,000-strong army of thugs remains in business despite elections, The Independent, 18 June 2012
Assad will breathe a sigh of relief at death of Arab Spring, The Independent, 16 June 2012
What Next for Egypt and is the Revolution Betrayed? Belfast Telegraph, 12 June 2012
In Tripoli, posters of martyrs in the market place say it all – and more are on the way, The Independent, 11 June 2012
In Cairo, they know revolutions don't always pan out quite as they wanted, The Independent, 6 June 2012
Syria's Conflict Fought in Lebanon? ZVideo, 6 June 2012
Hosni Mubarak has fallen. Assad clings on. Yet the fate of their nations is anyone's guess, The Independent, 4 June 2012
Mubarak will die in jail, but that's no thanks to us, The Independent on Sunday, 3 June 2012
The West is horrified by children's slaughter now. Soon we'll forget, The Independent, 29 May 2012
The going price of getting away with murder... would $33m be enough? The Independent, 28 May 2012
Megrahi is dead. Now we'll never know the truth about Lockerbie, The Independent, 21 May 2012
The Belfast hotel where you check in but never leave, The Independent, 21 May 2012
Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop? The Independent, 14 May 2012
Arab Spring has washed the region's appalling racism out of the news, The Independent, 7 May 2012
Did Osama really believe I would polish his image? The Independent, 4 May 2012
After the Arab Spring, an Islamic Awakening? The Independent, 28 April 2012
The Children of Fallujah - families fight back, The Independent, 27 April 2012
The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors, The Independent, 26 April 2012
The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story, The Independent, 25 April 2012
Iraq's road back from oblivion, The Independent, 24 April 2012
This is politics not sport. If drivers can't see that, they are the pits, The Independent, 21 April 2012
Counter-revolution – the next deadly chapter, The Independent, 21 April 2012
Interview with Robert Fisk: ‘Freedom has a sour taste for many iraqis' by Henrik Ahrens, Niqash, 19 April 2012
The Baghdad street of books that refuses to die, The Independent, 14 April 2012
Shot in the heart - the journalist Assad made into a martyr, The Independent, 11 April 2012
Under siege but vicar of Baghdad is still spreading the word, The Independent, 7 April 2012
Watch us lead the UN donkey up the Khyber, The Independent, 31 March 2012
On Lebanon's border, silent Syrians are flocking to an unknown future, The Independent, 30 March 2012
Living on the edge of Syria's bloody war, The Independent, 29 March 2012
When did we stop caring about meaning? The Independent, 24 March 2012
Q+A transcript of Paul Holmes interview with Robert Fisk, TVNZ, 18 March 2012
Madness is not the reason for this massacre, The Independent, 17 March 2012
Condemn me, but get your facts right first, The Independent, 10 March 2012
Is Homs an echo of what happened in Srebrenica?, The Independent, 7 March 2012
The fearful realities keeping the Assad regime in power, The Independent on Sunday, 4 March 2012
The heroic myth and the uncomfortable truth of war reporting, The Independent, 3 March 2012
Jailed in Geneva - the colonel who stood up against Mubarak, but refused to spy for the Swiss, The Independent, 2 March 2012
The regime calls it 'cleaning', but the dirty truth is plain to see, The Independent, 1 March 2012
The new Cold War has already started – in Syria, The Independent, 25 February 2012
If only Hague and Clinton would listen to Yusuf Islam', The Independent, 22 February 2012
Poisoned spring: revolution brings Tunisia more fear than freedom, The Independent, 21 February 2012
I've lost a good, brave, honourable friend, The Independent, 18 February 2012
Could there be some bad guys among the rebels too?, The Independent, 11 February 2012
John McCarthy knows the value of history, The Independent, 11 February 2012
From Washington this looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'. But not from here, The Independent, 7 February 2012
An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don't rule it out, The Independent, 4 February 2012
Syria is used to the slings and arrows of friends and enemies, The Independent, 1 February 2012
The present stands no chance against the past, The Independent, 28 January 2011
We've been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran', The Independent, 25 January 2012
In the line of fire: Tom Hurndall, The Indepedent, 21 January 2012
Fragments of history rescued from oblivion, The Indepedent, 21 January 2012
Poverty is main culprit as 19 die in slum tragedy, The Independent, 17 January 2012
The 'invented people' stand little chance, The Independent, 14 January 2012
This is not about 'bad apples'. This is the horror of war, The Independent, 13 January 2012
Assad faces his people's hatred – but as their anger grows, his excuses are still just the same, The Independent, 11 January 2012
The shocking truth that killing can be so casual, The Independent, 7 January 2012