- He is a journalist and an expert on Middle-East conflicts.
- He has written several books about Middle-East conflicts.
- He received Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and again in 2000 for his articles on NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. He also received the British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year seven times, and twice won its "Reporter of the Year" award.
- Fisk lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Fisk was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on June 24, 2004. The Political and Social Sciences department of Ghent University (Belgium) awarded him an honorary doctorate on March 24, 2006. Fisk was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the American University of Beirut in June 2006.
- Received a BA in English and Classics at Lancaster University and a PhD in Political Science, awarded by Trinity College, Dublin in 1985.
- Only reporter to have interviewed Osama bin Laden three times (1993-1997).
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