Richard Kerbaj

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rdf:langString Richard Kerbaj is an author, journalist and documentary producer who was born in Melbourne, Australia to Salim and Souad Kerbaj before moving moving with his family to a village in Lebanon in 1980 when he was 2 years old where they were members of the local Druze community. The family returned to Melbourne and lived in Toorak where the family ran a milk bar. In March 2001, Kerbaj started a writing course run by at Deakin University. His first newspaper article was an August 2001 profile of host of , the host of radio show Take 40 Australia, which was published in The Age. Kerbaj initially worked as a freelancer before he started working for The Australian newspaper in 2005. In 2006 Kerbaj published an article on Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali which won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism and a Young Journalist of the Year award at News Limited which gave him the opportunity to work at a News Limited publication in London for three months. In 2018 Kerbaj shared the "Scoop of the Year" award with Tom Harper and Jon Ungoed-Thomas at the British Press Awards for their reporting on pornography found on the computer of Damian Green. In 2019 Kerbaj married Marine Debray in a ceremony in Paris.