The Independent 1997 Robert Fisk - Abstracts

The Independent 1997 Robert Fisk
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A nation thirsts as ancient rivalries muddy the water. (water supply problems in Syria) (life in Syria, part 1)Retail industryRobert Fisk
A new partner for the Middle East. (Europe must act as peace broker in the Middle East)(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
A rocket is returned to sender. (evidence of transfer of weaponry from US armouries to Israel)(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
A snapshot of life inside the secret world of Israel's Palestinian prisons.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Back to Belfast. (experiences of returning to Northern Ireland, part 1)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Becalmed on the Sahara's ocean of heat: the refugees dreaming of a homeland. (Saharawi refugees long for return to independent Arab Democratic Saharan Republic)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Bloody terror that leaves children speechles with fear.(impact of terrorism on surviving victims in Algeria)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Building a new Lebanon ravages its Ottoman treasures.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Christians of the Arab world flee their Biblical homeland. (many Christians leave Middle East)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Conscript tells of Algeria's torture chambers.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Egypt declares war on the press.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Fifteen years after the bloodbath, the world turns its back. (no international action to help Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Chatila camps)(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Film censor allows a chink of light behind the veil. (Iranian film industry seeks to escape censorship)Retail industryRobert Fisk
'Friends' in Middle East rebuff US and flock to Tehran.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Guillotines add a barbaric touch to Algeria's bloodbath.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Halting steps to a Middle Eastern Korea. (Dr Nabil Sukkar, driving force behind economic reform in Syria) (series on Syria, part 3)(Interview)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Heaven, hell and Irish politics. (Northern Ireland, part 2)(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Hizbollah winning war with deadly 12 pounds sterling 'rocks.'Retail industryRobert Fisk
Hypocrisy and deceit: the essential ingredients for war. (developments in Middle East in 1997)Retail industryRobert Fisk
'I felt the knife at my neck. My wife was so brave. She tried to help. So they cut her throat in front of me.' (massacre of civilians in Algeria)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Iranian law blamed as girl killed by drug-addict father.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Iranians pick a fresh face of the revolution; who will lead the Islamic state into a new future.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Iran's leader urged to stand up for human rights. (Iranian intellectual Abdol-Karim Soroush)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Iran's puritanical censors tear classic novels to pieces. (publisher Shahla Lahigi)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Iran's revolution prepares to take a democratic turn; the west may be missing a historic opportunity for rapprochement with Tehran.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Israelis defiant as peace crumbles.Retail industryRobert Fisk, Eric Silver
Israeli 'terrorism' hands a gift to Egypt's Islamist rebels.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Lost souls of the Algerian night: now their torturers tell the truth.(torture by security forces in Algeria)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Mubarak's gadfly prophesies a peaceful Islamic revolution. (Magdi Hussein, editor of Al Shaab newspaper)(Interview)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Muslim leader warns of a new assault on US forces. (Ossama Bin Laden, Saudi dissident)(Interview)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Nightmares of torture haunt exiled witnesses.(exiled Algerian police inspector tells of torture)Retail industryRobert Fisk
No, Algeria, it's not an 'internal affair.' (need for international intervention in Algerian civil war)(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Official voice of Damascus comes cold off the presses. (Walid Shehadeh, editor of the Syria Times) (series on Syria, part 2)(Interview)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Old enemies reshape the Middle East.(Syria develops links with Iraq)Retail industryRobert Fisk
One man's heroic fight against a regime with a taste for torture.(Algerian lawyer helps relatives of the disappeared)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Passions rise as Iran seeks new talks on death sentence. (resolving conflict over Salman Rushdie)(Seyyed Ataollah Mohajerani, Iranian Minister of Islamic Guidance)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Peace-keepers walk the thin blue line. (work of Norwegian United Nations patrol in Bourhoz, southern Lebanon)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Pope faces mission impossible in Lebanon's blood-soaked land.Retail industryRobert Fisk
Prisoners trapped in the war that time forgot. (Moroccan soldiers remain in Polisario camp in Algeria)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Prized place in history for free spirit who dares to be defiant. (Algerian newspaper editor Salima Ghezali)(Media +)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Rafsanjani sings swan song with a human touch. (former Iranian President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Reading between the lines of an uncertain future. (Dr Nafez Shamas, senior lecturer and member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party) (life in Syria, part 4)(Interview)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Red Army arrests bring Japan's media brigade to Beirut, then trail goes cold. (Red Army members arrested in Lebanon)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Religion in the Middle East: the fundamental problem.(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Rostropovich flies into Beirut bringing spirit of Lebanon the beautiful.(significance of performance of Mstislav Rostropovich at a Lebanese music festival)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Saddam's athletes tripped up at visa hurdle. (Iraqi athletes prevented from competing in pan-Arab games in Beirut, Lebanon)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Shameful echo of a forgotten holocaust. (harsh treatment of people of Armenian descent in Cyprus)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Silent danger lurks in the shadowy olive groves of Lebanon. (experiences of going on night patrol with Norwegian peace-keepers)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Terror tests Algeria's faith in democracy.Retail industryRobert Fisk
The border is a state of mind. (divided communities in Northern Ireland)(part 3)(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
The Iranian political football is passed to the adults.(Column)Retail industryRobert Fisk
The man who wants to wage holy war against the Americans. (Ossama Bin Laden)(Interview)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Truth the victim in American crackdown. (US government seeks to deport Algerian Islamic Salvation Front spokesman Anwar Haddam)Retail industryRobert Fisk
UN dove brings hope to desert's lost tribe. (former US Secretary of State James Baker seeks to resolve Moroccan occupation of western Sahara)Retail industryRobert Fisk
US spy planes reveal Israel's secrets.Retail industryRobert Fisk
US wary as Iran tries to exorcise its demons. (Iran seeks closer links with outside world)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Why a Manhattan secretary won't let Israel forget the massacre at Qana. (Eva Stern)Retail industryRobert Fisk
With Sten guns and sovereigns Britain and US saved Iran's throne for the Shah. (overthrow of Iranian prime minister Mohamed Mossedeq)(The Cold War, part 3)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Witness from the front line of a police force bent on brutality.(police brutality in Algeria)Retail industryRobert Fisk
Women who wait for lost souls to come home.(disappeared persons in Algeria; includes related notes)Retail industryRobert Fisk
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