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September 2010

Robert Fisk: Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East
When: Saturday, September 25 2010 @ 07:30 PM - - 09:30PM
Where: First Presbyterian Church
1140 Cowper Street
Palo Alto, CA
Description: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center is please to present the incomparable

ROBERT FISK

Foreign Correspondent for The Independent of London
Author of "The Great War for Civilisation"
More British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent

"Lies, Misreporting, and Catastrophe in the Middle East"


During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time), to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel's invasions of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq.

Passionate in his concerns about the region and relentless in the pursuit of the truth, Fisk has been able to enter the world of the Middle East and the lives of its people as few other journalists have. His unblinking eyewitness testimony to the horrors of war places him squarely in the tradition of the great frontline reporters of the Second World War. His searing descriptions of lives mangled in the chaos of battle and the battles themselves are at once dreadful and heartrending.

Fisk also tells the stories of journalists in war: of their attempts to report the first, impartial drafts of history, to monitor the centers of power, to challenge authority (“especially … when governments and politicians take us to war”) and to battle an increasingly partisan worldwide media in their determination to report the truth.

"He is a devastating witness to the failure of politics to guard mankind against itself." - The Sunday Times

$10 ~ $25 suggested donation || Wheelchair accessible



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