Robert Fisk, a world-renowned Middle East correspondent for London’s Independent, received a Ph.D. in political science from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1985, and an honorary doctorate in literature and journalism from the University of Lancaster, England. He was The Times’s Belfast correspondent from 1971 to 1975, and Middle East correspondent from 1976 to 1987. Fisk has covered the conflict in the North of Ireland, the Israeli invasions of Lebanon, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Gulf War, wars in Bosnia and Algeria, the NATO war with Yugoslavia, the Palestinian uprisings, and the current war in Iraq. He was the winner of the Amnesty International U.K. Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria, and in 2000 for his articles on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. He was awarded the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA prize for international journalism and has received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1996.