Robert Fisk è stato uno scrittore e giornalista inglese che ha dedicato oltre 30 anni alla copertura del Medio Oriente come corrispondente per The Independent, con base principale a Beirut. Il suo lavoro era caratterizzato da un fermo impegno a sfidare le autorità, credendo che il giornalismo debba 'sfidare l'autorità, ogni autorità, specialmente quando governi e politici ci portano in guerra'. Fisk, un pacifista che non ha mai votato, è diventato famoso per il suo acuto e coraggioso reportage dai conflitti in Afghanistan e Iraq. La sua integrità giornalistica gli è valsa numerosi premi britannici e internazionali, affermandolo come una voce di spicco nella corrispondenza estera.
Dalle voci più autorevoli della stampa internazionale, una raccolta di interventi su uno dei temi più critici dell'informazione: come fare giornalismo indipendente oggi. Dalle zone calde del pianeta - dall'Algeria alla Cecenia, dai territori palestinesi occupati all'Iraq e all'Afghanistan voci fuori da ogni schieramento raccontano un mondo che non assomiglia più alla geografia insegnata nelle scuole. Alcuni di loro scrivono in russo, altri in inglese, altri in arabo, altri in ebraico: molti sono riusciti a guadagnarsi la stima dei loro nemici e a perdere quella dei loro amici.
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH
AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY The final work
from award-winning journalist and commentator Robert Fisk, following on from
the highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation. An extraordinary
chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and
eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the
West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and
uncomfortable truths that rarely featured on the traditional news agenda. With
a foreword from fellow Middle East correspondent and former colleague Patrick
Cockburn, Night of Power delivers an essential and final account from one of
the world's finest journalists, and proves itself timely as ever. 'Every
sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable
dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting
warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of
today's events' Amira Hass, journalist, Haaretz 'Fisk's reporting is clear-
eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice
in their ever more important and widely threatened craft' Anthony Arnove,
editor, Iraq Under Siege and author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
"Written by one of Britain's most distinguished journalists, this remarkable book is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for twenty-six years. It is a story of western betrayal and the loss of American power and prestige in the Middle East. This book tells, too, in frightening detail, the story of the Middle East's first suicide bombers and their first devastating strike at Americans. Through a combination of war reporting and political analysis. Robert Fisk describes Lebanon's ferocious civil war and subsequent Israeli invasions, the Lebanese militias whose appalling brutality spared no one; the US Marines who found themselves trapped in the horror of Lebanon where many of them were to meet a terrible fate; and the Israelis, who tried to install their own puppet rulers, and with their 1982 invasion provoked war crimes of their own. Fully updated to include the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon and Ariel Sharon's electoral victory, this American edition has sixty pages of new material and a revised preface."--BOOK JACKET.
Presents an account of 50 years of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East. This book tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's ruthless dictators, and America's powerful military presence in the world's most dangerous lands.
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.
'INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY
The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in
the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of
Civilisation left off, starting with the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in
2005.
A distinctive exploration of how workers see work For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question "Work is--?" in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide some of the rich source material behind What Work Is. Bruno draws on the thoughts and feelings experienced by workers in the present day to analyze how we might design a future of work. He breaks down perceptions of work into five categories: work and time; the space workers occupy; the impact of work on our lives; the sense of purpose that motivates workers; and the people we work for, in all senses of the term. Far-seeing and sympathetic, What Work Is merges personal experiences with research, poetry, and other diverse sources to illuminate workers' lives in the present and envision what work could be in the future.
This remarkable anthology chronicles more than three years of spiralling violence and despair in Syria: atrocity heaped upon atrocity, misery upon misery, and all - so far - to no avail. No faction is without blood on its hands; no crime, from torture to poison gas, has been deemed taboo. The dead are too numerous to count. As for the living, close to 3 million refugees have fled Syria, with millions more internally displaced. How did we come to this? There is no better way to answer this question than to revisit The Independent's published accounts of the unfolding tragedy. Spearheaded by peerless and profoundly experienced correspondents such as Patrick Cockburn, Robert Fisk, Kim Sengupta, our coverage has led the world in its fearlessness and insight. Syria's tragedy is not yet over.
