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Name
  
David Hirst


Role
  
Correspondent

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Books
  
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

Education
  
Rugby School, University of Oxford

Similar
  
Michael Adams (journalist), Geoff Barton, Ray Connolly

Born
  
1936 (age 87)

David Hirst (born 1936) is a veteran Middle East correspondent based in Beirut. He attended Rugby School from 1949 to 1954 and performed his national service in Egypt and Cyprus from 1954 to 1956. From 1956 to 1963 he studied at Oxford University and the American University of Beirut. He reported for the Guardian from 1963 to 1997 and has also written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Irish Times, the St. Petersburg Times, Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Daily Star. He was kidnapped twice (including one kidnapping in Beirut from which he escaped on by bolting from his captors' automobile in a Shia neighborhood of Beirut ) and was banned at various times from visiting six Arab countries, including Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He continues to contribute to the Guardian and to other newspapers around the world.

David Hirst (journalist) Beware of Small States journalist David Hirst interviewed The

Books

David Hirst (journalist) Interview with David Hirst The Global Dispatches

  • Oil and Public Opinion in the Middle East (1966) ISBN 0-571-06593-7
  • Sadat (1981) ISBN 0-571-11690-6
  • The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) ISBN 0-571-21945-4
  • Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East (2010) ISBN 978-0-571-23741-8
  • حذار من الدول الصغيرة: لبنان، ساحةُ معارك الشرق الأوسط - Arabic Edition of Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East (Rimal Publications, 2013) ISBN 978-9963-610-99-0

  • The media, nuclear power, and failed peace: An interview with David Hirst |  The Electronic Intifada

    References

    David Hirst (journalist) Wikipedia