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Karl Sharro

lebanese-British satirist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ113759148 ↗
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Karl Sharro is a satirist. He is an architect by profession.

Sharro uses absurdist humor to provide insights into Middle East politics. He writes on Twitter (now X) as "Karl reMarks" which is his pen name. He has also used more traditional mediums. His book And Then God Created the Middle East and Said 'Let There Be Breaking News' was published by Saqi Books in 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karl Sharro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.