Karl Sabbagh
KARL SABBAGH is a writer and television producer with 25 years of experience describing complex events and subjects for a nonspecialist audience. His programs for the BBC and PBS have encompassed physics, medicine, psychology, philosophy, technology, and anthropology. Two of his television projects have been accompanied by best-selling books: The Living Body and Skyscraper. He specialises in non-fiction, with a preponderance of science and medicine, but has also written on architecture, history, fraud and Victorian boys’ problems.
“I like to tell true stories,” he says, “either through reportage on modern topics or digging up and dusting down unusual stories from the past.”
The son of a Palestinian father and an English mother, in 2004 he wrote Palestine: A Personal History, which was partly a search for his ancestors and partly a history of Palestine.
Books by Karl Sabbagh
Books by Karl Sabbagh include
Childhood Memory – Oxford University Press 2009
Your Case is Hopeless – John Murray, 2007
Palestine: A Personal History – Atlantic Books, 2006, and Grove Atlantic, 2007
Dr Riemann’s Zeros – Atlantic Books and Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2004
A Rum Affair – Penguin Press and Farrar Straus Giroux (nominated in 2002 for Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize.)