What is Robert Fisk?
[[File:Robert Fisk at Al Jazeera Forum 2010 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Robert Fisk at Al Jazeera Forum 2010]] '''Robert Fisk''' (12 July 1946 &ndash; 30 October 2020) an English-Irish writer and journalist. He was a Middle East correspondent from 1976 until his death for many medias. From 1989 until his death, he was a correspondent for ''[[The Independent]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robert Fisk|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/author/robert-fisk|access-date=2020-06-04|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> Fisk was born in [[Maidstone]], [[Kent]]. Fisk studied at [[Lancaster University]] and at [[Trinity College Dublin]]. He was a known [[Arabic language|Arabic]] speaker,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=466 |title=Robert Fisk lecture (audio) |publisher=Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences – Kingston University London |website=Fass.kingston.ac.uk |access-date=21 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512045811/http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=466 |archive-date=12 May 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> he was the few Western journalists to interview [[Osama bin Laden]]. He interviewed him three times between 1993 and 1997.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fisk |first=Robert |title=The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East |url=https://archive.org/details/greatwarforcivil0000fisk_e8g8 |year=2005 |publisher=Fourth Estate |pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatwarforcivil0000fisk_e8g8/page/n30 1]–39 |isbn=1-84115-007-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Honoured War Reporter Sides With Victims of Conflict|date=4 November 2005|publisher=[[New Zealand Press Association]]}}</ref> Fisk died of a [[stroke]] on 30 October 2020 at a [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]] hospital at the age of 74.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/veteran-journalist-and-author-robert-fisk-dies-aged-74-1.4397069 |title=Veteran journalist and author Robert Fisk dies aged 74 |website=Irish Times|access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref> ==