Michael Karam
Michael Karam is the editor of “Tears of Bacchus: A history of winemaking in the Arab World”. He's a journalist and award-winning wine writer. He is a lover of Lebanese food and drink, cigars, whisky and watches.
Our man in Beirut
The “Glorious Dead” are often only “Glorious” when it suits us
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness