Robert Fisk

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.

 

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

Bonfire of the dictators, The Independent, 31 December 2011

France's shamefully forgotten allies, The Independent, 31 December 2011

Turkey's long road to reconciliation, The Independent, 24 December 2011

The adventures of Tintin in Beirut, The Independent, 17 December 2011

Alaa al-Aswany: 'Overthrowing Mubarak was too good to be true', The Independent, 12 December 2011

Bankers are the dictators of the West, The Independent, 10 December 2011

Phoenician footprints all over Beirut, The Independent, 3 December 2011

Back to Tahrir Square, The Independent, 2 December 2011

'The real fight for demcracy in Egypt has yet to begin', The Independent, 1 December 2011

Sanctions are only a small part of the history that makes Iranians hate the UK, The Independent, 30 November 2011

A glimpse of real democracy – but it may prove too good to be true, The Independent, 29 November 2011

Why torturers film their handiwork, The Independent, 26 November 2011

Exile dreams of a bloodless return after a life spent opposing Assad regime, The Independent, 25 November 2011

Egyptian crisis gives Syria time to talk about democracy, The Independent, 23 November 2011

Ukraine, 1942. What are we seeing? The Independent, 19 November 2011

The Arab Spring has given Turkey a voice. Don't mess with it, The Independent, 18 November 2011

Assad will only go if his own tanks turn against him, The Independent, 16 November 2011

Arab League's 'roar' at Syria shows how tiny Qatar is starting to flex its muscle, The Independent, 14 November 2011

Will computers make extinct the last of Islam's proud and honourable calligraphers? The Independent, 12 November 2011

Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead?, The Independent, 5 November 2011

Al Jazeera - 15 years in the headlines, The Independent, 2 November 2011

What the killing of Gaddafi means to Syria, The Independent, 29 October 2011

'The army was told not to fire at protesters', The Independent, 28 October 2011

Syria slips towards sectarian war, The Independent, 27 October 2011

Assad's army remains defiant as it buries its dead, The Independent, 26 October 2011

Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark, The Independent, 22 October 2011

You can't blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys, The Independent, 21 October 2011

Assad, his raids on Lebanon, and Syria's slow slip into civil war, The Independent, 17 October 2011

Great War secrets of the Ottoman Arabs, The Independent, 15 October 2011

Democratic governments don't deal with terrorists – until they do, The Independent, 13 October 2011

Violence shows uneasy place of minorities after Arab Spring, The Independent, 11 October 2011

Jerusalem can do strange things to your sanity, The Independent, 8 October 2011

The never-ending war against cliché and jargon, The Independent, 1 October 2011

Palestine, yes, but Israelis draw the line at Jerusalem, The Independent, 27 September 2011

Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem, The Independent, 24 September 2011

A President who is helpless in the face of Middle East reality, The Independent, 23 September 2011

Dreams of a helpful America keep Palestinians hoping, The Independent, 22 September 2011

Why the Middle East will never be the same again, The Independent, 20 September 2011

German U-boats refuelled in Ireland? Surely not, The Independent, 17 September 2011

Bin Laden's haunting last words, a decade after 9/11, The Independent, 14 September 2011

New light on an old horror – and still there is no justice, The Independent, 10 September 2011

It's not the brutality that is 'systematic'. It's the lying about it, The Independent, 9 September 2011

For 10 years, we've lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question, The Independent, 3 September 2011

Algeria sends the West a message by taking in Gaddafi's brood, The Independent, 31 August 2011

Prosecuting war crimes? Be sure to read the small print, The Independent, 27 August 2011

History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh, The Independent, 25 August 2011

How long before the dominoes fall? The Independent, 23 August 2011

How long does it take before justice is irrelevant? The Independent, 20 August 2011

It's his fast-disappearing billions that will worry Assad, not words from Washington, The Independent, 19 August 2011

The immortality of a great, if flawed, historian, The Independent, 13 August 2011

This slaughter will end only when words of condemnation are acted on, The Independent, 9 August 2011

The city and its workers that first took on Mubarak, The Independent, 6 August 2011

Once untouchable, the old despot and his sons faced the wrath of the nation they had terrorised, The Independent, 4 August 2011

Egypt awaits first trial of an Arab Spring dictator, The Independent, 3 August 2011

Egypt's revolutionary youth are being sidelined, The Independent, 2 August 2011

The Arab world's dictators cling on, but for how long?, The Independent, 30 July 2011

The filth and the fury: A mountain of rubbish is blighting Lebanon's once-beautiful beaches, The Independent, 23 July 2011

Heard the one about the child and the blood money?, The Independent, 23 July 2011

Now the Arab Spring becomes an Arab Summer, The Independent, 16 July 2011

In Tahrir Square the anger is growing again. Where is the revolution the crowds fought for? The Independent, 12 July 2011

Why I had to leave The Times, The Independent, 11 July 2011

A dictator's trial that even his enemies questioned, The Independent, 9 July 2011

The new focus of Syria's crackdown has seen similar bloodshed before, The Independent, 6 July 2011

How Iran wages its own global 'war on terror', The Independent, 2 July 2011

First the Syrians, then the Iranians, then the Libyans were the expedient culprits, The Independent, 1 July 2011

UN blames Hezbollah for Hariri bomb murder, The Independent, 1 July 2011

Iran's war games go underground, The Independent, 29 June 2011

How the demise of a trusted adviser could bring down Ahmadinejad, The Independent, 28 June 2011

Words of wisdom from an Irish Renaissance man, The Independent, 25 June 2011

'No wonder they were rioting in Damascus. This was insulting both to the living and to the dead', The Independent, 21 June 2011

We can't tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace, The Independent, 18 June 2011

I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives – these charges are a pack of lies, The Independent, 14 June 2011

Swat the flies and tell the truth – live on al-Jazeera, The Independent, 11 June 2011

The people vs the president, The Independent, 8 June 2011

The dumping ground for despots welcomes another, The Independent, 7 June 2011

Revealed: the untold story of the deal that shocked the Middle East, The Independent, 7 June 2011

Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? The Independent, 30 May 2011

A tale from the frontline of Palestinian protest, The Independent, 28 May 2011

Reactions to President Obama's May 19 speech, ZNet, 23 May 2011

Uneasy times in Lebanon as Syrian revolt simmers, The Independent, 21 May 2011

Lots of rhetoric – but very little help, The Independent, 20 May 2011

President's fine words may not address the Middle East's real needs, The Independent, 19 May 2011

Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants?, The Independent, 14 May 2011

Truth and reconciliation? It won't happen in Syria, The Independent, 7 May 2011

Is Shane Bauer really an enemy of Iran?, The Independent, 6 May 2011

The al-Qa'ida leader knew he was a failure. Now US has turned him into martyr, The Independent, 5 May 2011

If this is a US victory, does that mean its forces should go home now?, The Independent, 4 May 2011

Robert Fisk on Bin Laden death, ZNet, 4 May 2011

Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along, The Independent, 3 May 2011

A close encounter with the man who shook the world, The Independent, 3 May 2011

'We will never cease our struggle until we bring down Assad', The Independent, 2 May 2011

Out of Syria's darkness come tales of terror, The Independent, 29 April 2011

If the rumours and conspiracies are true, then President Assad's regime is on the road to civil war, The Independent, 27 April 2011

Shifting blame to Lebanon may be the method in Assad's madness, The Independent, 25 April 2011

Every concession makes the President more vulnerable, The Independent, 23 April 2011

But what if the spirit of rebellion spread to Iran? The Independent, 23 April 2011

Can President Assad do what it takes to cleanse his corrupt regime?, The Independent, 20 April 2011

A legacy of light from the sorrow of death, The Independent, 16 April 2011

'The Arab awakening began not in Tunisia this year, but in Lebanon in 2005', The Independent, 15 April 2011

Beware men of power who turn to writing books, The Independent, 9 April 2011

Let the images of war speak fo themselves, The Independent, 2 April 2011

Assad: The Arab Spring stops here, The Independent, 31 March 2011

Ottoman adventures hold lessons for our leaders, The Independent, 26 March 2011

Right across the Arab world, freedom is now a prospect, The Independent, 22 March 2011

Remember the civilian victims of past 'Allied' bombing campaigns, The Independent, 21 March 2011

First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi. Now there's a vacancy for the West's favourite crackpot tyrant, The Independent, 19 March 2011

Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do, The Independent, 12 March 2011

America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels, The Independent, 7 March 2011

Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt, The Independent, 5 March 2011

The Tunisian whose jihad was for the people, not God, The Independent, 5 March 2011

The historical narrative that lies beneath the Gaddafi rebellion, The Independent, 3 March 2011

Panic on borders as chaos engulfs Libya, The Independent, 2 March 2011

Misery at the border as Gaddafi's guests flee, The Independent, 1 March 2011

The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil, The Independent, 26 February 2011

Tripoli: a city in the shadow of death, The Independent, 24 February 2011

Gaddafi raved and cursed, but he faces forces he cannot control, The Independent, 23 February 2011

Cruel. Vainglorious. Steeped in blood. And now, surely, after more than four decades of terror and oppression, on his way out?, The Independent, 22 February 2011

Bahrain – an uprising on the verge of revolution, The Independent, 21 February 2011

These are secular popular revolts – yet everyone is blaming religion, The Independent on Sunday, 20 February 2011

'They didn't run away. They faced the bullets head-on', The Independent, 19 February 2011

Dark humour in a time of dictatorship, The Independent, 19 February 2011

Three weeks in Egypt show the power of brutality – and its limits, The Independent, 16 February 2011

Mohamed Heikal: 'I was sure my country would explode. But the young are wiser than us', The Independent, 15 February 2011

Is the army tightening its grip on Egypt?, The Independent, 14 February 2011

Cairo's 50,000 street children were abused by this regime, The Independent on Sunday, 13 February 2011

A tyrant's exit. A nation's joy, The Independent, 12 February 2011

Full circle on Tahrir Square as history comes in gulps, The Independent, 12 February 2011

As Mubarak clings on... What now for Egypt?, The Independent, 11 February 2011

Hypocrisy is exposed by the wind of change, The Independent, 10 February 2011

“The Great Tragedy is Obama Chose Not to Hold Out His Hand”: Robert Fisk on the Gap Between U.S. Rhetoric and Action in the Egyptian Uprising, Democracy Now! 9 February 2011

Week 3, day 16, and with every passing hour, the regime digs in deeper, The Independent, 9 February 2011

US envoy's business link to Egypt, The Independent, 7 February 2011

Mubarak is going. He is on the cusp of final departure, The Independent on Sunday, 6 February 2011

Exhausted, scared and trapped, protesters put forward plan for future, The Independent, 5 February 2011

'Mubarak will go tomorrow,' they cried as rocks and firebombs flew, The Independent, 4 February 2011

Robert Fisk: Obama Administration Has Been Gutless and Cowardly in Dealing with the Mubarak Regime, Democracy Now! 3 February 2011

Blood and fear in Cairo's streets as Mubarak's men crack down on protests, The Independent, 3 February 2011

Secular and devout. Rich and poor. They marched together with one goal, The Independent, 2 February 2011

Mohamed ElBaradei: The man who would be President, The Independent, 1 February 2011

How much longer can Mubarak cling on?, The Independent, 31 January 2011

Death throes of a dictatorship, The Independent on Sunday, 30 January 2011

A people defies its dictator, and a nation's future is in the balance, The Independent, 29 January 2011

Egypt's day of reckoning, The Independent, 28 January 2011

A new truth dawns on the Arab world, The Independent, 26 January 2011

Tombs that bear witness to Algeria's Jewish tragedy, The Independent, 22 January 2011

Names of Hariri killing suspects handed to judge, The Independent, 18 January 2011

The brutal truth about Tunisia, The Independent, 17 January 2011

Some people will do anything to avoid blame, The Independent, 15 January 2011

Lebanon in limbo: a nation haunted by the murder of Rafiq Hariri, The Independent, 14 January 2011

The forgotten martyrdom of Algeria's reporters, The Independent, 8 January 2011

Bombs make no moral distinctions where they fall, The Independent, 1 January 2011

The tragedy of Algeria's 'disappeared', The Independent, 20 December 2010

Stay out of trouble by not speaking to Western spies, The Independent, 18 December 2010

Why can't a Palestinian woman tell her own story? The Independent, 11 December 2010

Lebanon holds its breath over leaked revelations, The Independent, 10 December 2010

Qatar's the star – and Washington is worried, The Independent, 8 December 2010

Survival of the neutral - Ireland's Second World War, The Independent, 4 December 2010

Now we know. America really doesn't care about injustice in the Middle East, The Independent, 30 November 2010

Oceans of blood and profits for the mongers of war, The Independent, 27 November 2010

The man who dares to take on Egypt's brutal regime, The Independent, 25 November 2010

An American bribe that stinks of appeasement, The Independent, 20 November 2010

Canberra, Ankara and other 'fake' capitals, The Independent, 13 November 2010

How Lebanon can't escape the shadow of Hariri's murder, The Independent, 12 November 2010

Only justice can bring peace to this benighted region, The Independent, 6 November 2010

Lebanon and Iran make uneasy bedfellows, The Independent, 30 October 2010

Wikileaks Proved The US Lied, ZNet, 29 October 2010

Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East, The Independent, 26 October 2010

The shaming of America, The Independent on Sunday, 24 October 2010

La vergüenza de EU al descubierto, La Jordana, 24 de octubre de 2010

They're trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge again, The Independent, 23 October 2010

Lebanon – land of phantom oil deals, spies and political murder, The Independent, 20 October 2010

What I learned the day I took tea with Ian Blair, The Independent, 16 October 2010

Israel comes face to face with the man who would wipe it off the map, The Independent, 15 October 2010 (The headline was probably not chosen by Fisk, see: The "Wipe Israel Off The Map" Hoax)

Lebanon and Hizbollah ready to welcome Ahmadinejad, The Independent, 13 October 2010

Injustice in three dimensions, The Independent, 9 October 2010

Grand old warbirds with a guilty past, The Independent, 2 October 2010

Un refugio del miedo y la vergüenza, La Jordana, 26 septiembre de 2010

Freedom, democracy and human rights in Syria, The Independent, 16 September 2010

Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead – and nothing learnt, The Independent, 11 September 2010

A man who lived by his word – and died by it, The Independent, 11 September 2010

The truth about 'honour' killings, The Independent, 10 September 2010

A place of refuge from fear and guilt, The Independent, 10 September 2010

The lie behind mass 'suicides' of Egypt's young women, The Independent, 9 September 2010

Relatives with blood on their hands, The Independent, 8 September 2010

The crimewave that shames the world, The Independent, 7 September 2010

On the trail of a dead British major in Vichy Lebanon, The Independent, 4 September 2010

Blair should take responsibility for Iraq. But he won't. He can't, The Independent, 3 September 2010

Battlefield stereotypes that were fed to young minds, The Independent, 28 August 2010

Egyptians prepare for life after Mubarak, The Independent, 24 August 2010

Even the little dog was not spared by Cromwell, The Independent, 21 August 2010

US troops say goodbye to Iraq, The Independent, 20 August 2010

An apology fatally devalued by the passage of 65 years, The Independent, 7 August 2010

Butcher of Buchenwald in an Egyptian paradise, The Independent, 7 August 2010

UN: Israel was on its own side before border clash, The Independent, 5 August 2010

Israel-Lebanon tensions flare after skirmish leaves four dead, The Independent, 4 August 2010

Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing, The Independent, 31 July 2010

We should mourn these desert staging posts, The Independent, 24 July 2010

Why Jordan is occupied by Palestinians, The Independent, 22 July 2010

They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason, The Independent, 17 July 2010

CNN was wrong about Ayatollah Fadlallah, The Independent, 10 July 2010

Newspeak: why the BBC has an 'issue' with problems, The Independent, 3 July 2010

Deadly skies: The bloody truth about the Battle of Britain 70 years on, The Independent, 3 July 2010

The US film that confronts the truth about Afghanistan, The Independent, 26 June 2010

Ghosts from the past: Syria's 30 years of fear, The Independent, 24 June 2010

Fighting talk: The new propaganda, The Independent, 21 June 2010

German captains, U-boats and other lies about Ireland, The Independent, 19 June 2010

The innocent became the guilty, the guilty innocent, The Independent, 16 June 2010

The premier who thought Hitler was a 'Joan of Arc', The Independent, 12 June 2010

The truth behind the Israeli propaganda, The Independent, 5 June 2010

Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives, The Independent, 1 June 2010

Remorse and redemption in a terrorist's mind, The Independent, 29 May 2010

Power to change, The Independent, 27 May 2010

Tea with Bin Laden...and other stories, The Independent, 22 May 2010

Dubai police hunt Briton over murder of Hamas official, The Independent on Sunday, 16 May 2010

Silenced for speaking the truth about Guantanamo, The Independent, 15 May 2010

The Arabs have their gulags too, The Independent, 8 May 2010

Afghanistan's ancient treasures must be saved, The Independent, 1 May 2010

The luxury resort in the middle of a war zone, The Independent, 27 April 2010

Churchill reckoned the Japanese preferred war-war to jaw-jaw, The Independent, 24 April 2010

'I listen as a lost people tell of their woes in a kind of trance', The Independent, 17 April 2010

Hizbollah's silence over Scuds speaks volumes to Israel, The Independent, 16 April 2010

Malaya 1948: another shameful episode in Britain's colonial past, The Independent, 10 April 2010

Spare me the academics who only want a 'safe, positive space', The Independent, 3 April 2010

Pakistan's advocates of justice, The Independent, 1 April 2010

On the streets of Pakistan, it's as if the sun hasn't set on the Raj, The Independent, 27 March 2010

Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared', The Independent, 18 March 2010

Try this reading list if you want to understand the Middle East, The Independent, 13 March 2010

Living proof of the Armenian genocide, The Independent, 9 March 2010

Once again, a nation walks through fire to give the West its 'democracy', The Independent, 8 March 2010

Someone remembers this atrocity at last – to Obama's dismay, The Independent, 6 March 2010

Mubarak's challenger can't rely on a fair race, The Independent, 5 March 2010

Scenes from a busy Beirut correspondent's notebook, The Independent, 27 February 2010

An eventful, yet typical, day out with Our Man in Jerusalem, The Independent, 20 February 2010

Britain's explanation is riddled with inconsistencies. It's time to come clean, The Independent, 18 February 2010

Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret, The Independent, 17 February 2010

Arieli is a man with a plan. The trouble is, it's a map of Israel, The Independent, 13 February 2010

State of denial: Robert Fisk searches for peace in Israel, The Independent, 11 February 2010

Gaza's defiant tunnellers head deeper underground, The Independent, 10 February 2010

The presence of the Palestinian in the Israeli painter's eye, The Independent, 6 February 2010

Israel feels under siege. Like a victim. An underdog, The Independent, 2 February 2010

Why does the U turn a blind eye to Israeli bulldozers?, The Independent, 30 January 2010

Israel can no longer ignore the existence of the first Holocaust, The Independent, 30 January 2010

The never-ending exodus of Christians from the Middle East, The Independent, 23 January 2010

The tree-lined bunkers that could change the face of the Middle East, The Independent, 21 January 2010

The stakes get higher as Arab princes try to outdo each other, The Independent, 16 January 2010

America's desire to be loved and feared has long misled CIA, The Independent, 6 January 2010

Walls never work: in the Middle East or in Ireland, The Independent, 2 January 2010

The silent cleric who holds the key to Iran's future, The Independent, 29 December 2009

In Ypres I suddenly realised what this war has been about, The Independent, 26 December 2009

If you think we can ignore these linguistic crimes, think again, The Independent, 19 December 2009

These Iranian troubadours show how music can corrupt the soul, The Independent, 5 December 2009

This strategy has been tried before – without success, The Independent, 3 December 2009

India may hold whip hand in this power game, The Independent, 27 November 2009

Reasons for Alec Collett's death remain buried in Bekaa, The Independent, 26 November 2009

Hatchets and hostages – the old days of Mao's revolution, The Independent, 14 November 2009

The German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up to – and failed, The Independent, 7 November 2009

America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator, The Independent, 4 November 2009

The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines, The Independent, 31 October 2009

Beirut's history can't be reduced to a mere 'heritage trail', The Independent, 24 October 2009

End of an era for Lebanon's free press, The Independent, 22 October 2009

Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistake, The Independent on Sunday, 11 October 2009

The right photographer can strip a leader's power in a flash, The Independent, 10 October 2009

Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey, The Independent, 8 October 2009

A financial revolution with profound political implications, The Independent, 7 October 2009

The demise of the dollar, The Independent, 6 October 2009

In a remote corner of China lies a tiny patch of Muslim freedom, The Independent, 3 October 2009

Israel should pay attention to criticism from its own people, The Independent, 26 September 2009

Mangling everything in its path, Typhoon Sarah blows in to Asia, The Independent, 24 September 2009

Everyone seems to be agreeing with Bin Laden these days, The Independent, 19 September 2009

The curious case of the missing Egyptian and the Swiss police,The Independent, 29 August 2009

For the truth, look to Tehran and Damascus – not Tripoli, The Independent, 22 August 2009

From the crusaders on, contempt for the Arabs is written in stone, The Independent, 22 August 2009

Democracy will not bring freedom, The Independent, 21 August 2009

Why these deaths hit home as hard as the Somme, The Independent, 18 August 2009

In praise of tea, the brew that powered Britain for centuries, The Independent, 15 August 2009

Little has changed since the secretive days of the Suez crisis, The Independent, 8 August 2009

Could Iran be plotting a Hizbollah offensive to take the heat off its leaders?, The Independent, 4 August 2009

Gulf War legacy flares as 'stingy' Kuwait puts the squeeze on Iraq, The Independent, 29 July 2009

Why does life in the Middle East remain rooted in the Middle Ages?, The Independent, 28 July 2009

Lessons in justice and fairness from a no-nonsense historian, The Independent, 25 July 2009

Some lessons in sacrifice from Liverpool in two world wars, The Independent, 18 July 2009

The story of Baha Mousa, The Independent, 12 July 2009

You won't find any lessons in unity in the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Independent, 11 July 2009

Tanks roll and guns fall silent, but the clichés go on for ever, The Independent, 4 July 2009

The jury is out on the Iranian model of religion and politics, The Independent, 27 June 2009

Symbols are not enough to win this battle, The Independent, 23 June 2009

Battle for the Islamic Republic, The Independent on Sunday, 21 June 2009

Khamenei is fighting for his own position as well as Ahmadinejad's, The Independent, 20 June 2009

In Tehran, fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows, The Independent, 20 June 2009

The dead of Iran are mourned – but the fight goes on, The Independent, 19 June 2009

Secret letter 'proves Mousavi won poll', The Independent, 18 June 2009

Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom, The Independent, 17 June 2009

Iran's day of destiny, The Independent, 16 June 2009

Ahmadinejad whips crowd to frenzy as opposition muzzled, The Independent, 15 June 2009

Iran erupts as voters back 'the Democrator', The Independent on Sunday, 14 June 2009

A divided country united by the spirit of democracy, The Independent, 13 June 2009

The world may be one but you need a visa to get around it, The Independent, 13 June 2009

Iran's old guard are poised to crush any hope of revolution, The Independent, 12 June 2009

Lebanese voters prevent Hizbollah takeover, The Independent, 8 June 2009

A glimpse of Obama in a Cairo emptied of its people and its poor, The Independent, 6 June 2009

Words that could heal wounds of centuries, The Independent, 5 June 2009

Could it be al-Qa'ida is missing Bush?, The Independent, 4 June 2009

Police state is the wrong venue for Obama's speech, The Independent, 3 June 2009

Most Arabs know this speech will make little difference, The Independent, 2 June 2009

The mysterious case of the Israeli spy ring, Hizbollah and the Lebanese ballot, The Independent, 1 June 2009

You don't need colour to tell the brutality of war – but it helps, The Independent, 30 May 2009

Biden's real mission is to stop Hizbollah, The Independent, 23 May 2009

When I look at the Pyramids, I wonder why I tire of Egypt, The Independent, 23 May 2009

The West awaits the return of friendly 'democrats' to Lebanon, The Independent, 16 May 2009

If every picture tells a story, what do they say to each other? The Independent, 9 May 2009

Civilians Pay Price of War from Above, The Independent, 7 May 2009

Right to the Very End in Iraq, Our Masters Denied Us the Truth, The Independent, 2 May 2009

A historic day for Iraq – but not in the way the British want to believe, The Independent, 1 May 2009

Is this the price of America's new friendship with Syria?, The Independent, 30 April 2009

Obama falls short on Armenian pledge, The Independent, 28 April 2009

Everyone wants to be an author, but no one is reading books, The Independent, 25 April 2009

The wars come and go but the enemy remains the same, The Independent, 18 April 2009

How can you trust the cowardly BBC?, The Independent, 16 April 2009

Will Obama honour pledge on genocide of Armenians? The Independent, 6 April 2009

Now I've really lived. I've gone on a movie set and shouted 'Action!', The Independent, 4 April 2009

Galloway a victim of Canada's baffling approach to fighting terror, The Independent, 1 April 2009

A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him, The Independent, 28 March 2009

I told him I admired his refusal to sign the death sentences, The Independent, 21 March 2009

Why Avigdor Lieberman is the worst thing that could happen to the Middle East, The Independent, 18 March 2009

The West should feel shame over its collusion with torturers, The Independent, 14 March 2009

A Christian painter who could not see the light in Palestine, The Independent, 7 March 2009

Examine the Pope's words, and there's only one thing to conclude, The Independent, 28 February 2009

Robert Fisk on Gaza and the media by Stefan Kristoff, Rabble, 23 February 2009

It's been 250 years, but war still rages on the Plains of Abraham, The Independent, 21 February 2009

Obama was unconvinced by Bibi's desire for peace, The Independent, 21 February 2009

A fair point: Everyone is equal in their suffering during wartime, The Independent, 14 February 2009

I saw a mesmeric Islamic uprising turn to savagery, The Independent, 10 February 2009

Iran: A nation still haunted by its bloody past, The Independent on Sunday, 8 February 2009

War reporters used to prefer morality over impartiality, The Independent, 7 February 2009

When did we stop caring about civilian deaths during wartime?, The Independent, 31 January 2009

Plots, sense and nonsense: the view from the post bag, The Independent, 24 January 2009

So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza..., The Independent, 22 January 2009

Posturing and laughter as victims rot, The Independent, 20 January 2009

So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal?, The Independent, 19 January 2009

When it comes to Gaza, leave the Second World War out of it, The Independent, 17 January 2009

Tin-pot rockets won't open a second front, The Independent, 15 January 2009

Who killed Mr Lebanon?: The hunt for Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri's assassins, The Independent on Sunday, 11 January 2009

Wherever I go, I hear the same tired Middle East comparisons, The Independent, 10 January 2009

Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask, The Independent, 7 January 2009

Bring in the peacekeepers? It's not as easy as it sounds, The Independent, 6 January 2009

Keeping out the cameras and reporters simply doesn't work, The Independent, 5 January 2009

What's in a name? Quite a lot, where the military is concerned, The Independent, 3 January 2009

The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act, The Independent, 1 January 2009

 

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