Michael KARAM has written about wine in Decanter, Harpers, Drinks Business, The Spectator, Club Oenologique and jancisrobinson.com. His books include, Wines of Lebanon, which won the Gourmand Award for the Best New World Wine Book, 2005; Chateau Ksara: 150 Years of Winemaking; Arak and Mezze: The Taste of Lebanon; Tears of Bacchus: A History of Wine in the Arab World and Michael Karam’s Lebanese Wines. He is a contributor to Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine; The World Atlas of Wine; Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book and The Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopaedia. He co-wrote and starred in the 2020 feature length documentary Wine and War. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, CNN, CNN Business, CNBC, and Winemasters TV.

Norbert SCHILLER has lived in the Middle East and Africa as a news photographer for over 40 years. He has worked for the Associated Press, Agence France Presse, European Pressphoto Agency, United Press International, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel, covering, among others, three Iraq wars, wars and famine in the Horn of Africa, Islamist insurgencies in Egypt and North Africa, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His collaborations with Michael Karam include Wines of Lebanon; Arak and Mezze: The Taste of Lebanon,
and Château Ksara: 150 years of Winemaking 1857–2007. Schiller has co-authored and illustrated several other books about the region: Be Thou There: The Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt; Spectacular Egypt; and A
Million Steps: Discovering the Lebanon Mountain Trail. He is the curator of www.photorientalist.org, a website dedicated to the preservation of historic images from the Middle East and North Africa.