Born and educated in England, Robert Fisk, is currently living in Beirut. He is the Middle East correspondent for the London Independent (home icon on left). Has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin (1985) and has received an honorary degree in Journalism from the University of Lancaster. He was the Irish correspondent of the London "Times" based in Balfast between 1971 and 1975. From 1976 till present he has been reporting from the Middle East. He has covered the Israeli invasions of Lebanon (1978 and 1982), the Iranian Revolution (1979), the Iran-Iraq war (1980 - 1988), The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1980), The Gulf war (1991), the war in Bosnia (1992 - 1996) and the Algerian conflict (1992 - onward). He has been the recipient of: Amnesty International Overall Media Award, 1998, British International Journalist of the Year Award (seven times, most recently in 1995 and 1996), United Nations Press Award, 1986, Johns Hopkins SIAS-CIBA prize for international journalism, 1996.)