March 27, 2000

Contact: Ghassan Bishara Phone: 202/223-3677 and gkbishara@merip.org

Internationally acclaimed and award winning journalist Robert Fisk will be delivering several lectures in Washington, DC about coverage of the Middle East and the Balkans and will address political and human rights issues as well as the human cost of NATO’s use of depleted uranium in the bombing in Iraq, Yugoslavia and Kosovo.

Author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War; The point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster; and In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality 1939-1945, Fisk has reported the Middle East from Beirut for about twenty-four years. In recognition of his excellent reporting for the London Times, The Irish Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Independent of London, he has been awarded the Amnesty International UK Press Award, twice the British International Journalist Award and most recently the Foreign Correspondent of the Year award. A graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, Fisk holds a Ph.D. in political science and has appeared on radio and television news programs in Europe, Canada, the US and the Middle East.

While in Washington, Fisk’s program will include:

Monday, April 10

7:30 - 10 PM

George Washington University; co-sponsored by the George Washington University Middle East Studies program and the School of Media and Public Affairs

2201 G Street, NW

Funger Hall, Room 103

Cancer and Guns: Reporting "Our" Wars. Coalition Forces’ use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq and Kosovo.

Tuesday, April 11

5:30-6:15 PM

Georgetown University

Intercultural Center (ICC), room 241

South Lebanon on the Eve of Israeli Withdrawal

Contact: Ann Marie Chaaraoui 2092/687-6215

Wednesday, April 12

12:30-2 PM

The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (CPAP)

2435 Virginia Ave., NW

Lebanon’s Forsaken Palestinians

Contact: Heidi Shoup, 202/338-1290