Fergal Keane is the most decorated foreign correspondent since the late Robert Fisk, who was a guest of GLAS in 2005. Fergal won an Amnesty television prize in 1994 for his investigation of the Rwandan genocide, Journey into Darkness. He has also won the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year award, Sony Radio Reporter of the Year and a BAFTA.
His war reporting won him the James Cameron Prize and the Edward R. Murrow Award for foreign reporting and the Index on Censorship prize for journalistic integrity. His book Season of Blood won the Orwell Prize. He also won a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award for his reporting as part of the BBC team covering the 2015 refugee crisis. In 2018, he was awarded the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for Wounds.
GLAS is proud to host ‘A Conversation with Fergal Keane’ and audience members will be invited to join in the conversation. We will talk about the highs and lows of his stellar career and his struggle with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) as captured in his memoir The Madness.
What the critics said about The Madness:
“Keane has not just the courage to risk death so that the most important stories can be told, as well as the eye to tell them with vivid subtlety, but also the humility to reveal the havoc that this task visits on the beholder.” – The Spectator
“A brutally honest exploration of what motivates Keane to keep reporting on atrocities despite the toll on his mental health…. Gentle but unflinching.” – The Guardian
“He lets us look inside those complex compartments where fear, anxiety, anger and panic lurk, and he tells a story of being afraid all his life…beautifully written…This is an important book.” – The Irish Times
All proceeds will go to the Gaza School of Music, a branch of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine. It continues to engage with displaced children traumatised by two years of war in the Gaza Strip. Please spread the word!
Ticket Reservations
Send an email stating your name and the number of tickets required to: bookings@theglas.org
Date: Sunday 22 November at 15:00 (Ticket collection and refreshments from 14.30)
Tickets: CHF 20 (or CHF 15 for retired and unemployed; and CHF 10 for students)
Venue: Aula, College des Coudriers, 15a Ave Joli Mont (opp. Balexert)
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The ever-popular GLAS raffle is sponsored by Charly O’Neill’s bar and restaurant.