Truth to Power: The Legacy of Robert Fisk

Nelofer Pazira-Fisk in conversation with Marie-Louise Kerr.

Nelofer Pazira-Fisk discussed her experience completing her late husband’s book Night of Power : The Betrayal of the Middle East on Middle Eastern politics, his legacy as a journalist and shares her reflections on how Western mainstream media is reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Nelofer Pazira-Fisk is an award-winning Afghan Canadian author, journalist and filmmaker. She was based in Beirut for fifteen years working alongside her late husband, Robert Fisk. She reported for Canadian television and radio as well as UK and Canadian newspapers from Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria.

‘This is a masterly work by a unique and gifted “historian of the present”, who was unafraid to criticise authority while revealing the horrific realities of life and death on the ground’ Conor O’Clery, Irish Times

‘John Hume’s brave vision is needed right now in the Middle East.’
Nelofer Pazira-Fisk

Read reflections here.