Karl Sabbagh
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| name = Karl Sabbagh
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| birth_name = Khalil Sabbagh
| birth_date = 1942
| birth_place = Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK
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| nationality = British
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| spouse = Sue Heber Percy
| children = 4
| occupation = Writer, journalist, producer
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Karl Sabbagh is a British writer, journalist, television producer, and convicted sex offender.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/17933474.paedophile-karl-sabbagh-author-film-maker-jailed-grooming-child/|title=Paedophile author and filmmaker sent indecent videos and vibrator to 14 year-old|website=thisisoxfordshire|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}} His work is mainly non-fiction: he has written books about historical events and produced documentaries for both British and American broadcasters.
Biography
Karl Sabbagh was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, England in the March quarter of 1942.{{Cite web|title=Freebmd|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/|access-date=29 November 2020|website=freebmd}} His father was the Palestinian Christian broadcaster {{ill|Isa Sabbagh|ar|عيسى صباغ}}, at the time working for the BBC Arabic Service;Palestine A Personal History. {{ISBN|1-84354-344-3}}. Pages 2-4 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.
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.{{cite web |title=Notable alumni at Clapham College |url=https://claphamoldxaverianarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Notable-alumni-paat-pupils-at-Clapham-College-collated-in-2019.pdf |access-date=6 April 2025}}{{cite news |title=University News |work=The Times |date=18 June 1964 |page=16}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Royal Institution Christmas Lectures|url=https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch|access-date=29 December 2020}}
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.
Personal life
He is married to Sue Heber Percy and they have four children.{{Cite news|date=16 January 1970|title=Birth announcements|page=16|work=The Times}}{{Cite news|date=21 May 1975|title=Birth Announcements|page=28|work=The Times}}
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 Christiaan Barnard).
- Skyscraper: The Making of a Building (1989) (the story of the building of One Worldwide Plaza)
- Magic or Medicine?: An Investigation of Healing & Healers (1993; with Rob Buckman) (an investigation of alternative medicine)
- 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 Bankside power station as Tate Modern)
- Dr. Riemann's Zeros: The Search for the $1 Million Solution to the Greatest Problem in Mathematics (2002); [https://books.google.com/books?id=IFIc07eswukC The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, 1st American edition (2003)]{{cite web|author=Graham, S. W.|title=Review of The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by Karl Sabbagh|date=August 20, 2003|website=MAA Review, Mathematical Association of American|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-riemann-hypothesis-the-greatest-unsolved-problem-in-mathematics|access-date=4 August 2020|archive-date=14 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514174353/https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-riemann-hypothesis-the-greatest-unsolved-problem-in-mathematics|url-status=dead}} (about the Riemann Hypothesis)
- 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)
- A Book of King's: Views of a Cambridge College (2010)
- The Trials of Lady Jane Douglas (2014)
- Antisemitism Wars: How the British Media Failed Their Public (2018) {{ISBN|9781911072362}}
See also
References
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External links
- Bibliographical information from the [http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/GS4T45L36A9BHH51MQC6FAR8AKJITPHN7EFIUKSFC1YKRVDLG7-61162?func=short-0-b&set_number=040618&request=WRD%20%3D%20(%20karl%20sabbagh%20) British Library Catalogue] and [http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Sabbagh%2C%20Karl.&PID=Rf8uKuPBottieiu1dFqyCQlUqf9&BROWSE=1&HC=11&SID=1 Library of Congress Catalog]
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Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Category:British non-fiction writers
Category:English people of Palestinian descent
Category:British male non-fiction writers