fisk and chomsky

A public forum featuring Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky at MIT titled “War, Geo-Politics and History: Conflict in the Middle East.” This rare joint appearance has been organized by the ANCA-ER and co-sponsored by progressive student organizations at Harvard and MIT.

Noam Chomsky is perhaps the nation’s most well known critic of U.S Foreign Policy. He has stood up to the Turkish government for prosecuting authors and publishers based upon intolerant policies about free expression.

As one of the world's best known journalists through his distinguished work as Middle East correspondent for the UK based The Independent, Robert Fisk has informed the world about the Armenian Genocide more widely and thoroughly than any other journalist. In his latest book, The Great War for Civilization, Fisk dedicates an entire chapter to the Armenian Genocide, which he titles “The First Holocaust.” He provides the historical details of the genocide, reveals interviews with survivors in Lebanon and decries the Turkish and U.S. governments’ complicity in denying the genocide today.

This public forum will focus on the recent history of the Middle East.

This event is free and open to the public.