When Robert was first posted to the Middle East his father told him to worry about snipers, not shells.

It was sage advice from a soldier who had survived the First World War.

Robert has lived in the same apartment in Beirut for more than 40 years, serving as the Middle East Correspondent for The Times and The Independent.

He has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Syria.

Robert is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama Bin Laden, meeting him three times before the September 11 terrorist attacks.

He is in Australia as a guest of Griffith University's Integrity 2017.

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The Age of the Warrior and The Great War for Civilisation are published by Harper Collins

