Karl Sabbagh is a British journalist, producer and writer. Now, he runs Skyscraper Productions, which produces a range of documentary, music and drama programs for broadcasters in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Background
Ethnicity:
Karl's father was an Arab and his mother was of English, American and Irish parentage.
Karl Sabbagh was born in Worcestershire, United Kingdom, to Isa Khalil Sabbagh and Pamela Graydon.
Education
Sabbagh attended King's College in Cambridge.
Career
Karl Sabbagh began his career with BBC Television as a graduate trainee and worked on a variety of series, including Horizon, Inside Medicine, Controversy, and other scientific and technical documentaries.
Other credits include a 26-part television series on the human body, called The Living Body, a six-part series for Central Television on social anthropology and programs for Channel 4 on nuclear power, the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, nanotechnology, social anthropology, smoking in China and other scientific and medical topics. After producing the Skyscraper series for Channel 4 and PBS, Sabbagh set up Skyscraper Productions. At Skyscraper, Sabbagh has produced and directed many programs including Power Into Art, Twenty-First Century Jet, and Whispers of Creation. He now runs Skyscraper Productions, which produces documentary, music, and drama programs for broadcasters in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Karl Sabbagh is the author of several books including The Living Body (1984), Skyscraper (1989), Magic or Medicine? (1993), co-written with Rob Buckman, 21st Century Jet (1995) and A Rum Affair (1999).