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- Bibliographical information from the British Library Catalogue[permanent dead link] and Library of Congress Catalog
Karl Sabbagh | |
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| Born | Khalil Sabbagh 1942 (age 83–84) Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK |
| Occupations | Writer, journalist, producer |
| Children | 4 |
Karl Sabbagh is a British writer, television producer, director, and publisher. He has produced documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, and PBS, covering science, medicine, architecture, aviation, and space. He is the author of nonfiction books on science, history, and politics, as well as novels. He cofounded the television company Independent Communications Associates (InCA) in 1982, and set up Skyscraper Productions in 1990.
His father, Isa Sabbagh, was a leading Palestinian broadcaster in the BBC Arabic Service from 1939-48. Most of the Sabbagh family became refugees in 1948 when they were expelled from Palestine by the new state of Israel. During his career in the media, Sabbagh has often written or made films about Palestinians.
Sabbagh was educated at Clapham College and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in natural sciences and about which he wrote A Book of King's: Views of a Cambridge College in 2010. He was the producer of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, ‘The natural history of a sunbeam’, by George Porter, in 1976 and ‘The planets’, by Carl Sagan, in 1977.
Sabbagh's book Palestine (2006) interweaves a history of Palestine from the 18th century with an account of his paternal family, who were prominent Christian members of Palestinian society in Galilee throughout that period, settled in the town of Safad from at least the beginning of the 19th century. The book includes a critical account of the Zionist settlement and eventual takeover of Palestine in the first half of the 20th century.
Sabbagh is married and has four children.
In September 2019 Sabbagh was convicted of meeting a 15-year-old girl after grooming and served a prison sentence of 22 months.
