Welcoming Mr Fisk to the campus, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett, said the journalist blended the sure-footed confidence of a veteran foreign correspondent "with the scholarship of one who understands the history of the region and its peoples".
The problem was Mr Ansari didn't even know about it until a week later, when a foreignjournalist hunted him down in a relief camp for riot victims, carrying a newspaper with the picture across an entire page.