Nelofer Pazira-Fisk: Truth to Power: The Legacy of Robert Fisk
The Black Box (Green Room)
Monday 5 May, 1.00pm
Doors 12.30pm | Unreserved seating
£6.00
Buy TicketsNelofer Pazira-Fisk discusses her experience completing her late husband’s book on Middle Eastern politics, his legacy as a journalist and shares her reflections on how Western mainstream media reports 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.
In 2001, she starred in the film Kandahar, based on her real-life story and has directed and produced several films including Return to Kandahar (2003), Act of Dishonour (2010), and This is Not a Movie (2019). Nelofer’s 2006 book, A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan, won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize.
‘Robert left me and the world his legacy of accurate reporting and being very truthful, honest and courageous to say it and speak it in the face of power’
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