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Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk’s World: These Iranian troubadours show how music can corrupt the soul

I am old enough to remember Ruhollah Khomeini banning Mozart and Haydn

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Children in Beirut are being taught from an English language textbook that has been censored by Hizbollah

How the anti-Semites of Hizbollah have sent Anne Frank back into hiding

Friday, 4 December 2009

Robert Fisk: The Jewish Holocaust is not a subject which Arabs have learned to live with

This strategy has been tried before - without success

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Robert Fisk: As Barack Obama plunges ever deeper into chaos, let us remember the British retreat from Kabul and its destruction in 1842.

Robert Fisk’s World: We're not taken in by luxury hotels' new green awareness

Saturday, 28 November 2009

If you want clean towels, you’ve got to leave them on the floor like a peasant

Dubai has shocked investors by asking for a debt standstill at Dubai World, the government's flagship holding company

India may hold whip hand in this power game

Friday, 27 November 2009

Robert Fisk: The biggest merchants in Dubai are Indian and they stand to gain as the emirate falters.

UN and British embassy officials recover the remains of Alec Collett at Lebanon's Bekaa valley

Reasons for Alec Collett's death buried in Bekaa

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Robert Fisk: Even Gaddafi has been airbrushed from the body-recovery story - after all he is now our friend.

Robert Fisk’s World: Scars of the past reveal Britain's doomed empire in Hong Kong

Saturday, 21 November 2009

By the time the British surrendered in 1941, thousands of civilians had been killed

Robert Fisk's World: Hatchets and hostages – the old days of Mao's revolution

Saturday, 14 November 2009

Grey's experience is painfully similar to those of his later colleagues in Beirut

Will they still be read - and understood - without being translated into modern computer-speak?: Edmund Blunden, Margot Asquith; Ernst Junger, the voices of the Fiorst World War that have echoed down the generations and have influenced the language we use today

The Great War and words to remember

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Robert Fisk on Armistice Day: Poets and soldiers recorded the horror of the Great War in writing that has affected generations. But as English evolves in the digital age, will their powerful words soon stop making sense?

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Free podcast download: The lost art of reportage

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Was there a golden age for international correspondents? Are current affairs now largely brought to us in dumbed down soundbites? Who now sets the framework for coverage of world events?

Robert Fisk's World: The German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up to – and failed

Saturday, 7 November 2009

The victors write the history, so Frobenius's adventures are today virtually unknown

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