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 Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) in Ottawa presents the renowned journalist Robert Fiskin the lecture entitled "Canada and the war in the middle east"
Date: 21st of February.
Time: 7:15 P.M.
Location: Marion Hall, 140 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, ON K1N
Biography:
Robert Fisk (born 12 July 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.
Fisk has been described in the New York Times as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain." He covered the Northern Ireland Troubles in the 1970s, the Portuguese Revolution in 1974, the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1980-88 Iran–Iraq War, the 1991 Gulf War, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has received numerous awards, including the British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year award seven times. Fisk speaks vernacular Arabic, and is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden – three times between 1994 and 1997
Fisk was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on June 24, 2004. The Political and Social Sciences department of Ghent University (Belgium) awarded him an honorary doctorate on March 24, 2006. Fisk was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the American University of Beirut in June 2006.
Received a BA in English and Classics at Lancaster University and a PhD in Political Science, awarded by Trinity College, Dublin in 1985. 
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