Robert Fisk

One of the cards used in the 'Perfecscope' shows women working at a mill in Palestine around 1900

Robert Fisk: Injustice in three dimensions

I am now the proud owner of a wooden "Perfecscope". Do not, readers, Google.

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The B-25J Mitchell Second World War bomber at Atwater's Castle Air Museum

Robert Fisk: Grand old warbirds with a guilty past

Saturday, 2 October 2010

Castle Air Force Base has a dark memory for a lady I meet in Fresno.

Realism and intimacy: an exhibition in Dublin of work by the 17th-century Dutch painter Gabriel Metsu includes A Man Writing A Letter

Robert Fisk: An artist who gave us life as it was lived

Saturday, 25 September 2010

The Dutch Golden Age

Robert Fisk alongside the No 186 J-15 class 0-6-0 steam locomotive - built in 1879 - as it prepares to depart from Dublin's Connolly station

Robert Fisk: Steam trains, relic of a bygone era that will outlast us all

Saturday, 18 September 2010

The 10.50 from Dublin Connolly to Maynooth, No 186, a J-15 class 0-6-0 steam loco in spit-and-polish black livery, was born exactly 20 years before my father. Bill Fisk was born in 1899. But No 186 moved out of the Manchester factory of Sharp, Stewart & Co in 1879, and looks like it was born yesterday.

Syrian students hold candles and portraits of President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration in Damascus last year

Freedom, democracy and human rights in Syria

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Ribal al-Assad gives Robert Fisk a rare insight into the dynasty that has shaped modern Syria

The World Trade Center site with memorial footprints of the twin towers visible

Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead – nothing learnt

Saturday, 11 September 2010

Robert Fisk: Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .

Samir Kassir, a Lebanese journalist whose death in 2005 in Beirut in a car bomb explosion was blamed on the pro-Syrian regime

Robert Fisk: A man who lived by his word – and died by it

Saturday, 11 September 2010

Most of the audience for my David Roberts lecture were Lebanese – not surprising, since this is the British-Lebanese Association – so I pulled out my old copy of the biography of David Roberts, Scottish lithographer, romantic, the man who brought the might as well as the detail of Egypt's and Lebanon's dynastic and Roman ruins to early 19th-century Britain.

Many women in Jordan are kept in sheltered accommodation, fearful of death after being accused of 'honour' crimes

A place of refuge from fear and guilt

Friday, 10 September 2010

Robert Fisk: The final part of our series visits a Jordanian women's group that has opened shelters nationwide to protect victims of marital abuse

Islamist women at a rally in Amman

The truth about 'honour' killings

Friday, 10 September 2010

Robert Fisk concludes series of reports by reflecting on his findings

'Honour' murders are a hidden crisis in Cairo and across Egypt, where they are regarded as a tradition, and therefore permissible

Lie behind mass 'suicides' of Egypt's young women

Thursday, 9 September 2010

Robert Fisk: Part three of our series demolishes the official claim that Egypt has no 'honour' killings

Hina Jilani, Samia Sarwar's lawyer, speaks with contempt for the judges who allow the killers to go free

Relatives with blood on their hands

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Robert Fisk: Women who found refuge in Hina Jilani's shelter died later at the hands of their families.

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