Robert Fisk - Journalists are Witnesses to History

Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is a Middle East correspondent since 1976.

After beginning journalism in 1972 covering the Political turmoil in Northern Ireland. Fisk moved and has lived in Beirut, Lebanon since 1976.

Seeing first hand and reporting the Lebanese Civil War, Iranian Revolution, Iran-Iraq War, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Arab Spring, and lastly the Syrian Civil War.

Since 1989 he has been a correspondent for The Independent. 

Fisk has written many books, and documentaries such as "From Beirut to Bosnia," and one of the few westerners that interviewed Osama Bin Laden.

Fisk is renowned for his passionate writings and putting himself in danger, getting places no one else can, calling out the U.S and Israel on their foreign policy.

Robert Fisk is fond of history, something his father was too, and having lived in the Middle East uses his knowledge to give best explanations he can of whats been happening.

Giving insight into ISIS, Middle Eastern Perspectives on the West, and the long complicated  history behind it.