Robert Fisk Addresses LawSoc

The Law Society will present an evening with one of the contemporary world's most respected and outspoken figures, as one of the most renowned speakers to address students at UCC in years...

...Robert Fisk is Europe's most highly decorated foreign correspondent. He has received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1995 and 1996. His specialty is the Middle East, where he has spent the last twenty-three years.

He has met most of the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region - from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon, he has even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp with bin Laden himself.

He talks about the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's most ruthless dictators and America's ever more powerful military presence in the world's most dangerous lands as well as its uncritical, unconditional support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian land


Currently the Beirut correspondent for the London Independent, Fisk has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war, and the conflict in Algeria. Fisk 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 (1982, 1983), and Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, The Great War For Civilisation (2005) (1990, 1992) and most recently The Age of the Warrior, a compilation of his newspaper columns.

Quotes

Osama Bin Laden, 'If the White House wishes to understand Al- Qaeda they need only ask Robert Fisk...'

The New York Times, '...the most famous foreign correspondent...'

Robert Fisk, 'I see no hope for the Middle East'.

Robert Fisk, 'U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.'

Robert Fisk, 'War is not about victory or defeat. It is about the total failure of human spirit. When you see the things I see, you would never support war ever again.'

Noam Chomsky, '...the most respected journalist reporting in the Middle East with incomparible depth and understanding and also extraordinary courage...'

Mr Robert Fisk will address the Law Society on the current disposition of the Middle East, Western foreign policy and the relationship with Islam. Following his address, he will be interviewed by Stephen King (Belfast Telegraph and The Irish Examiner).

Due to limited seating capacity and overwhelming demand, the Law Soc will distribute tickets for this event. Tickets for students (ID required and free of charge) will be distributed on November 3rd at 11am in the Boole Basement. First Come First Serve.

The event will take place in Boole 4 at 7.30pm on November 4th. We advise early arrival for ticket inspection and collection.

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