Conversations with Ricardo Karam

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Ghida Rabbat in a deeply human conversation about motherhood, difference, inclusion, and the long journey of turning a personal challenge into a collective mission. As a mother of a child with special needs and the cofounder of OpenMinds, Ghida reflects on the years that shaped her understanding of autism, care, education, and dignity....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Rindala Beydoun in a conversation about roots, leadership, belonging, and the meaning of responsibility in a changing region. Born from a journey shaped between Bint Jbeil, Tyre, Saida, the United States, Dubai, and Beirut, Rindala reflects on the experiences that formed her understanding of citizenship, identity, and public engagement...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam meets Amal Azhari in a deeply personal conversation that goes beyond fashion into memory, identity, and resilience, where design becomes a reflection of lived experience and inner strength. The conversation traces her journey from a career in communications and public relations to the founding of her own couture house, exploring the courage it takes...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Mariana Wehbe in a profound conversation that explores a remarkable personal and professional journey shaped by displacement, reinvention, and the continuous redefinition of identity and belonging. The dialogue begins with formative chapters of her life, moving from Abu Dhabi to the United States before a pivotal relocation to Lebanon...

Send us Fan Mail The conversation begins with a reflection on human nature after decades spent covering wars, revolutions, genocides, and political upheavals, opening broader questions about truth, leadership, and the state of the world today. The discussion explores Amanpour’s journey as one of the most respected international journalists of her generation, her experiences interviewing presidents...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Abed Al Kadiri in a conversation that goes beyond art as an aesthetic space, where color becomes testimony, the canvas a space of survival, and art an act of confronting human pain. The dialogue begins with the image of a displaced child, scattered paper and colors, opening questions about art as it moves from galleries into a fracture...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Farid Chedid in a conversation that goes beyond insurance and business, exploring the journey of a man who built, from Lebanon, a network of trust that expanded across the region and the world, in an industry fundamentally built around uncertainty and risk. The discussion begins with the meaning of insurance in times of war and collaps...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Diala El Fil in a deeply human conversation that goes beyond personal grief to explore the journey of a mother who faced profound loss and searched for a new meaning to life through pain. From the moment everything changed, Diala reflects on a journey that cannot truly be explained in words, but lived through everyday moments, where lo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Antonio Vincenti in a conversation that goes beyond advertising to explore a journey that reshaped public space across Arab cities, turning the street from chaos into a visual language that shapes urban memory. From Lebanon to Amman, Baghdad, Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, Africa, and Europe, Antonio reflects on how “Picasso” began as an out...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Lebanese doctor, thinker, and humanitarian Dr. Kamel Mohanna in a dialogue that goes beyond biography to explore a life shaped by commitment, witness, and action in times of collapse. From his early beginnings to his college years in France, during moments of conflict in Lebanon, Dr. Mohanna reflects on what it means to choose pro...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Lebanese entrepreneur Assaad Raphael in a dialogue that goes beyond automobiles to explore passion as a form of resistance, and the meaning of building something meaningful in a country defined by uncertainty. From an early fascination with cars that gradually became a defining part of his identity, Assaad reflects on how passion...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Lebanese Olympian Samer Tawk in a dialogue that goes far beyond sport, tracing a journey shaped not only by achievement, but by rupture, resilience, and the quiet reconstruction of the self. From choosing an unlikely path in a country where winter sports are rare, to representing Lebanon on the Olympic stage in PyeongChang, Samer...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Nabil “Billy” Karam, eight-time Lebanese rally and hill climb champion, entrepreneur, extraordinary collector, and holder of six Guinness World Records titles. In a discussion that goes beyond speed, we explore how passion becomes identity, collecting becomes responsibility, and sports transform into a cultural legacy. From his ea...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Lebanese investor and philanthropist Philippe Jabre in a dialogue that moves beyond finance to question the meaning of return, commitment, and responsibility toward a country that never stops demanding. From the experience of war to that of exile, and ultimately the decision to return and invest in Lebanon, Philippe Jabre reflects...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Lebanese academic and writer Tarek El-Ariss in a discussion that moves beyond personal biography to explore writing as an act of reflection and responsibility toward memory. From a childhood in war-time Beirut that shaped his early awareness, to the experience of exile that deepened his understanding of anxiety and estrangement, a...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Dr. Ali Taher in a meeting that goes beyond medicine as a profession and explores it as a profound human act and an art of listening. From a childhood between Ghana and Beirut that shaped his view of diversity, to difficult experiences that deepened his understanding of human vulnerability, and on to London where he learned that a...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Georges Schoucair, the renowned Lebanese film producer and co-founder of Abbout Productions, in a discussion that goes beyond filmmaking as a business to explore it as a cultural and artistic choice. Since 2004, Abbout has supported independent cinema and auteur films, presenting over 30 films at major international festivals like...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Nadine Touma, artist, producer, and cultural activist, to explore the intersection of art, culture, and education. Nadine combines literature, humanities, design, and human rights in her work, offering a holistic vision of art as a tool for critical thinking and awareness from childhood. The discussion covers her multidisciplinary...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Michel Helou in a discussion that moves beyond politics as slogans and delves into the core of the Lebanese experience as a daily test of conscience and responsibility. Michel returned from Europe to Beirut, learned Arabic until it became part of his everyday life, worked in the media within a long-established institution, and the...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Dr. Basel Dalloul, a leading figure in the preservation and documentation of contemporary Arab art. The discussion goes beyond the concept of art collecting to explore meaning, memory, and cultural responsibility. Dr. Dalloul shares his vision of art as a human and political archive, reflecting on the moment when a family legacy t...

Send us Fan Mail In this unique conversation, Ricardo Karam meets Serge Brunst, the Lebanese designer who transformed his passion for art and beauty into an extraordinary journey between East and West. Born in Aleppo to a family of diverse roots Russian, Italian, and Levantine his experience has been shaped by the balance between belonging and identity, medicine and art, Beirut and Paris. Serge re...

Send us Fan Mail In this heartfelt and inspiring conversation, Ricardo Karam sits down with Moussa Charafeddine, a dedicated advocate whose personal journey transformed the landscape of support for individuals with intellectual disabilities in Lebanon. From the profound challenges of discovering that his first two children were born with intellectual disabilities, to leaving his medical career to...

Send us Fan Mail In deeply human conversation Ricardo Karam meets his friend from university Omar Dabaghi, a man who carries within him the memory, contradictions, and soul of old Beirut. Born into a family rooted in authenticity and openness, Omar was kidnapped during the war because he was Christian. Yet he chose to return to Hamra convinced that fear should never decide where one belongs. In th...

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ricardo Karam meets Rima Bikhazi, a woman who turned pain into strength, fear into purpose, and leadership into an act of compassion. From a 14-year-old girl forced to leave Beirut during the war, to a woman who returned ten years later to rebuild not just a hospital but a mission, Rima embodies resilience in a country constantly on the edge. As the head of o...

Send us Fan Mail In this profound and eye-opening episode, Ricardo Karam sits down with Dr. Elias Jarade, the doctor who became a voice for the wounded nation, and the parliamentarian who still treats people with the precision of a surgeon and the heart of a healer. From the Khiyam detention center to the operating room, from the echoes of explosions to the silence of Parliament, Elias Jarade has...