Robert Fisk

Middle East correspondent, The Independent

Robert Fisk is The Independent's Middle East correspondent. He began his career at the Sunday Express, writing a diary column, and The Times, where he served as Belfast correspondent and, later, Middle East correspondent in the 1970s. He moved to the Independent in the late-1980s.

Fisk is one of a small number of Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden. He holds many awards for journalism, including two Amnesty International UK Press Awards and seven British International Journalist of the Year awards. He is the author of The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (1975); In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45 (1983); and Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (2001).