Salam Kamel Karam ( ar, سلام كامل كرم) (born 9 March 1975) is a

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. Salam Karam was born in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

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. He speaks fluent

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as well as

. He has a bachelor's degree in Middle-Eastern studies from

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. He has worked as a Middle East reporter for the newspaper ''

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'' and in the radio program ''

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''. He has been noted for writing several articles exposing religious extremism and

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among Sweden's Muslims.

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1975 births Living people Swedish journalists Uppsala University alumni Writers from Baghdad Iraqi emigrants to Sweden {{Iraq-journalist-stub