https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/11/3/remembering-robert-fisk-a-mentor
![Robert Fisk on the corniche in Beirut in April 2017 [Katya Bohdan/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Robert-Fisk.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
3 Nov 2020
The only book Robert Fisk ever recommended I read was the satirical journalism novel – Scoop – by Evelyn Waugh – a story about hapless nature writer William Boot who, due to an unex