The Fixer: 33 Years Inside the Middle East with CBS News' Amjad Tadros

For 33 years, Amjad Tadros was the man CBS News and 60 Minutes relied on to get the story — the fixer who arranged access, built trust, and quietly made the impossible interviews happen across Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Yemen, and beyond. He covered every Iraq war from 1990 to 2003, worked alongside legends like Ed Bradley, Bob Simon, and Mike Wallace, and even became an accidental, unwitting favorite of Saddam Hussein after a chance encounter as a young engineer turned translator.

In this conversation, Amjad Tadros — now a date farmer in Jordan's Jordan Valley — talks about his book The Fixer, his front-row seat to three decades of Middle East history, and why he believes today's conflicts (including the current war with Iran) are eerie repeats of 2003. We get into the real cost of war beyond the headlines, the misunderstandings between the West and the Arab world, the death of legacy journalism, and what it's actually like to live a few miles from a falling missile.

A rare, honest look at the region from someone who was actually there.

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