The Pen and the Olive Branch: Reporting the Middle East

Over nearly a half century, David Hirst was The Guardian newspaper’s indispensable voice from the Middle East. He was a correspondent of rare courage, scholarship, and clarity, whose reporting on the region’s defining crises guided generations of readers through an otherwise impenetrable world. When other Western journalists fled Lebanon, Hirst stayed, living and working in Beirut for most of his ad...