The late Robert Fisk’s last book, Night of Power, was launched at an event in Dublin on Thursday evening. Drawing from over four decades of his frontline reporting from the Middle East, the books reflects his deep engagement with the region until his death in 2020. With a foreword by Patrick Cockburn, Night of Power delivers “day-to-day eyewitness reporting from the battlefields, scenes of massacres and everyday stories of loss, grief, folly, and failures that are combined with scholarly and academic historical analysis”, said his widow, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk, at the event.
She said the journalist’s perspective is especially missed at the moment, given the heightened crisis in Palestine in the wake of Israel’s invasion of Gaza. “Robert’s voice is missing, his analysis is needed,” she said. “‘What would he make of the current crisis?’ is among the comments and questions I hear on a daily basis.
His voice, the depth of his analysis and clues to the current crisis can be found in the chapters of his upcoming book.” READ MORE Co Westmeath crashes: US tourist killed and wife seriously injured while driving to airport The two big reasons why it is so hard to say how many homes we need Oh, to be an employee of Dublin Port Company South Dublin school’s plans to create ‘private Aviva’ in Rathgar square face local backlash The book begins with Legacy: The War in Iraq – 2012, which Ms Pazira-Fisk highlighted as a reminder of the “stories of families and l.
