Shakespeare, the arts and war: In conversation with Robert Fisk

In 2001, while reporting on the crisis in Afghanistan, award-winning foreign affairs journalist Robert Fisk was attacked near the border in Pakistan. The news reporter became part of the news. He documented his story in The Independent, to set the record straight, writing “I thought I should write about what happened to us in this fearful, silly, bloody, tiny incident. I feared other versions would produce a different narrative, of how a British journalist was ‘beaten up by a mob of Afghan refugees’… If I was an Afghan refugee in Kila Abdullah, I would have done just what they did. I would have attacked Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could find”.