Nationality Lebanese Children 3 Spouse Youmna Camille Ziade | Occupation Media personality Website ricardokaram.com | |
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Born May 18 San Felix, Venezuela Profiles | ||
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Ricardo Karam is a television presenter, producer, and talk-show host. He has created several documentary series and founded RK Productions, which has taken charge of producing all his talkshows and documentaries, and TAKREEM an organization aimed at rewarding outstanding Arabs in their respective fields in the hopes of inspiring future achievements.
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Career
Ricardo is the founder of his own production/consulting company and the presenter of most of his shows. He started in the media at 18, by hosting a radio series called Chroniques Radio (Radio Chronicles) from 1987 till 1990. He went on to create a current affairs radio show called Clin d’œil (Blink of an eye), which aired from 1991 to 1992. He made his TV debut in 1992 and his hobby became his living. He produced several talk-shows and documentary series in Arabic, English and French. Karam founded Takreem in 2010, as an organization aiming to promote good ethics in Arabs by honouring those who excel in their fields and are philanthropic.
Karam has written Privileged Encounters (2000). in which he reviews his interviews with prominent guests between 1996 and 2000. In 2005, he published Le Paris Libanais in which he discusses 30 years of history taking place between France and Lebanon, with the Lebanese conflict and civil war looming in the background
Honors and Awards
Karam was invited to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program of the US Bureau of Education in 1996. Ten years later he received an honor from the Mayor of the city of Beirut. He went on to receive several awards such as the Society of Lebanon the Giver Award, the LAU Alumni Achievement Prize, the Beirut International Festival (BIAF) Award, the Sheikh Ebrahim Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Center Prize for Culture and Research, and most recently, the Ordre National du Mérite Français. Karam has also been voted “40 Lebanese Who Make the Capital Great” by Time Out Beirut magazine, and among “The Ten Most Influential Men of Beirut” in 2013.
