Karl Sabbagh is a British writer, journalist, television producer, and convicted sex offender. His work is mainly non-fiction: he has written books about historical events and produced

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for both British and

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broadcasters.

Biography

Karl Sabbagh was born in

Evesham Evesham () is a market town and parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon. It lies within the Vale of Evesha ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

, England in the March quarter of 1942. His father was the

Palestinian Christian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

broadcaster , at the time working for the

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Arabic Service; his mother, born Pamela Graydon, was English, of American and Irish parentage. His parents divorced soon after he was born and his father later lived in the United States, but Karl (originally named Khalil after his grandfather) remained in England with his mother. He was the producer of the

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, ‘The natural history of a sunbeam’, by

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, in 1976 and ‘The planets’, by

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, 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 Galilee (; he, הַגָּלִיל, hagGālīl; ar, الجليل, al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee (, ; , ) and Lower Galil ...

throughout that period, settled in the town of

Safad Safed (known in Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevat ...

from at least the beginning of the 19th century. The book includes a critical account of the

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settlement and eventual takeover of Palestine in the first half of the 20th century.

Personal life

He is married to Sue Heber Percy and they have four children. In September 2019 Sabbagh was jailed for 45 months and put on the sex-offenders register for life after being convicted of grooming a 14-year-old girl.

Bibliography

*''The Living Body'' (1984; with

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). *''Skyscraper: The Making of a Building '' (1989) (the story of the building of

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) *''Magic or Medicine?: An Investigation of Healing & Healers'' (1993; with

Rob Buckman Robert Alexander Amiel Buckman (22 August 1948 – 9 October 2011) was a British doctor of medicine, comedian and author, and president of the Humanist Association of Canada. He first appeared in a Cambridge University Footlights Revue in 1968, ...

) (an investigation of

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) *''Twenty-First-Century Jet: The Making and Marketing of the Boeing 777'' (1996) *''A Rum Affair: A True Story Of Botanical Fraud'' (1999) (about the botanical fraud perpetrated by John William Heslop-Harrison) *''Power into Art'' (2000) (the story of the redevelopment of

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) * '' Dr. Riemann's Zeros: The Search for the $1 Million Solution to the Greatest Problem in Mathematics'' (2002)
''The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics'', 1st American edition (2003)
ref> (about the

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) *''Palestine: A Personal History'' (2006) *''Your Case is Hopeless: Bracing Advice From the Boy's Own Paper'' (2007) *''Remembering our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us'' (2009) *''The Hair of the Dog and Other Scientific Surprises'' (2009) *''The Trials of Lady Jane Douglas'' (2014) *''Antisemitism Wars: How the British Media Failed Their Public'' (2018)

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