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Karl Sabbagh

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  • Country of residence: United Kingdom
  • Gender: Male
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Carl Sabbagh; He is a Palestinian-British writer, journalist and television producer. His works are primarily pieces of non-fiction book: he has written books on historical events and produced documentaries for both British and American broadcasters.

Carl Sabbagh was born in Worcestershire, England in the early 1940s. His father was the Christian Palestinian broadcaster Issa Sabbagh, at that time working for the BBC Arabic service; His English mother, Pamela Graydon, was of Irish-American descent. His parents divorced shortly after his birth, and his father later lived in the United States, but Carl remained in England with his mother.

Sabbagh's book Palestine (2006) blends the history of Palestine from the eighteenth century, with an account of his patriarchal family, who were prominent Christian members of Palestinian society in the Galilee throughout that period, having settled in the city of Safed at least from the beginning of the 19th century. The book contains a critical account The Zionist settlement that usurped and permanently seized Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century.

Carl Sabbagh said that his book "Palestine: A Personal History" issued by the Arab Institute for Studies and Publishing is a family story, but it reveals secrets about the Palestinian tragedy that official histories do not talk about. It also exposes many falsehoods of Jewish claims on earth, especially those relating to the history of ordinary people and their impact on their destinies. He also went to Palestine in the year 2004, to the city where his family lived, the city of Safed, where he found Arab houses occupied by Jewish immigrants, and the Arabic inscriptions above the doors had been distorted to change the landmarks and disguise the facts. Sabbagh explained that Palestinians are usually mentioned in the Western media without people knowing anything about the state of Palestine and its history, despite the fact that an integrated society has been established in the land of Palestine in which the Arabs constituted more than ninety percent of the total population.

The author’s family was part of this social fabric, and one of his grandfathers, Ibrahim Sabbagh, was a minister at Zahir al-Omar, who ruled Palestine in the eighteenth century, and who was known as “the first king of Palestine.” This entity has spread a series of official lies, which have not stopped until this moment. In this book, Sabbagh reveals, through his family's personal history, the absurdity of Israel's claim that Palestine was a land without a people, pointing out that his grandfather was a lawyer in Tulkarm, and that his relatives were businessmen and commerce, and there were social and cultural links between Palestine and the Arab Mashreq.

Sabbagh wrote the book in 2006, taking advantage of the history of Palestine since the eighteenth century, and the intersections between his personal history, which was one of the most prominent Christian families in the Palestinian community in the Galilee throughout that period, and they settled in the town of Safed at least since the beginning of the nineteenth century . The book includes a description criticizing the Zionist settlement and the conquest of Palestine by the Jews in the first half of the twentieth century. The author depicts stages of the development of the Palestinian Arab society in towns and cities, with the accompanying cultural and political development as well. It refers to the good relations between many Arabs and Jews before 1948.

Sabbagh argues that the problem between the two parties is a political problem and not of another kind. It began with the advent of Zionism and its claim that the land of Palestine belongs to it. Sabbagh explains that the Palestinians at that time were suffering from factional schisms, and their leadership did not have a strategic plan for confrontation, nor a unified military command, and that the Israelis exploited the situation to distort the facts about the 1948 war, as evidenced by the writings of some Israeli historians. Jonathan Miller says in a speech on the cover of the book, "This book demonstrates the qualifications of Karl Sabbagh, through which he was able to provide us with a documented record of a geographic area subject to painful conflict, and at the forefront of these qualifications the relationships of the Sabbagh family rooted in the region, which date back to the year 1700.

Karl Sabbagh succeeded in refuting the allegations claiming that Palestine was a land without inhabitants, and that it was waiting for the return of the original inhabitants who gave themselves the legitimacy of return through an artificial sanctity. The least that Karl Sabbagh does in this book is that it provides the reader with what we need for a rational settlement For this devastating conflict for both parties, the book was translated by Muhammad Zaidan and reviewed by Dr. Hussein Yaghi, and the book is located in 336 pages of large pieces. It is noteworthy that Sabbagh is a writer and television producer who has published several books, including; Living Body (1984, with Christian Bernard), Skyscraper (1989), Magic or Medicine (1993), with Rob Buckman), Jet 21st Century (1996), Power in Art (2000). Remember Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us (2009), and others.

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Book (Palestine: A Personal History)

 

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