Lebanese satirist Karl reMarks

The World

By day, Karl Sharro is an architect in London. By night he is Karl reMarks, a Lebanese satirist whose distance from his homeland gives him a vantage point to employ humor to explain the Middle East to those not from the region. Carol Hills talks to Karl reMarks about his new book: “And Then God Created the Middle East and said ‘Let There Be Breaking News.’” 

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