Richard Kerbaj

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Richard Kerbaj is a BAFTA-winning, twice Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer and multi-award winning print journalist. Kerbaj specialized in investigating crime and national security-related stories during his 20 year career at newspapers in Australia and Britain.

Kerbaj's most recent projects include the book The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network in 2022, and Litvinenko in 2022, a true-crime TV drama centred on the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko by Russian agents operating in London.

Life

Born in Melbourne, Australia to parents of Druze origin, Kerbaj's family moved to a village in Lebanon in 1980 when he was 2 years old. They became trapped by the country's escalating civil war.[1]

His family returned to Melbourne and lived in

Toorak where they ran a milk bar. During Kerbaj's final year of high school his English grades improved dramatically with help from tutor and friend Ben Sheehan. In March 2001, Kerbaj started a writing course at Deakin University, where he studied under influential Australian author, journalist and photographer Peter Davis.[1] Kerbaj's first newspaper article was an August 2001 profile of host of Barry Bissell, the host of radio show Take 40 Australia, which was published in The Age.[1]

Kerbaj initially worked as a

The Australian newspaper in 2005.[1]

In 2006 Kerbaj published an article on Sheikh

News Limited which gave him the opportunity to work at a News Limited publication in London for three months.[1]

In 2018 Kerbaj shared the "

British Press Awards for their reporting on pornography found on the computer of Damian Green.[1][2]

In December,[year needed] Kerbaj praised the series' star David Tennant, stating that he had: "Saved our show because it was commissioned a few months before COVID hit. Had David decided not to stay involved, I’m not sure the drama would've been made."[citation needed]

Producer

Books

  • Kerbaj, Richard (2022). The secret history of the Five Eyes : the untold story of the international spy network. London.
    OCLC 1338655960.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Wilson, Peter (14 October 2022). "From Melbourne milk bar to BAFTA winner: How Richard Kerbaj made his own luck". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Financial Times crowned Newspaper of the Year at National Press Awards for 2017 – Society of Editors". Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ^ Grierson, Jamie (15 June 2015). "Mother of Briton 'killed fighting for al-Shabaab' felt let down by authorities". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  4. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  5. "My Son The Jihadi: From electrician to Al-Shabaab fighter". The Independent. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  6. "My Son the Jihadi, Channel 4". Financial Times. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  7. "My Son the Jihadi: What turns teenagers to terrorism?"
. www.thenationalstudent.com. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  • ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  • "Hunting the KGB Killers, C4 — 'a fantastic detective story'". Financial Times. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  • "TV Review of the Week: Hunting the KGB Killers, Broadchurch and Hospital People". The National. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  • "Hunting the KGB Killers". True Vision TV. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  • Baylis, Matt (18 April 2017). "Last night's TV reviewed: Bitter taste of espionage"
    • . Express.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  • ISSN 0260-9592
    . Retrieved 9 February 2023.