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).

Achievements

• Karl Sabbagh is the founder and managing director of Skyscraper Productions, which produces a range of documentary, music and drama programs for broadcasters in the United Kingdom and the United States. He worked on a number of series, including Horizon, Inside Medicine, Controversy, and other various documentaries on science, technology and medicine. He was executive producer of The Body in Question, a thirteen-part series written and presented by Dr. Jonathan Miller and co-produced with PBS.
  
  Sabbagh is also the author of several books on scientific, technical, and historical topics, many of which are companion volumes to his television programs.

Works

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  • Remembering Our Childhood

    (In this fascinating and sometimes disturbing book, the we...)

    2009
  • The Hair of the Dog: And Other Scientific Surprises

    (Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow begin...)

    2009
  • Riemann Hypothesis

    (In The Riemann Hypothesis, acclaimed author Karl Sabbagh ...)

    2002
  • Your Case Is Hopeless

    (This highly entertaining selection of answers to problems...)

    2007
  • A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud

    (Examines the discovery of several species of rare plants ...)

    1999
  • Twenty-First-Century Jet

    (Documents the production of the passenger aircraft, exami...)

    1995
  • Palestine: A Personal History

    (In a brilliant piece of detective work, Karl Sabbagh inve...)

    2006
  • Dr. Riemann's Zeros

    (In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wro...)

    2002
  • Skyscraper

    (In Skyscraper: The Making of a Building, Sabbagh explores...)

    1989
  • Shooting Star

    (At the age of 26, most of us are just embarking on life. ...)

    2013
  • Britain in Palestine: The Story of British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948 2012
  • The Living Body 1984
  • Magic or Medicine? 1993

Connections

Father:

Isa Khalil Sabbagh

Mother:

Pamela Graydon

References

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