When Arthur Met Maggie Patricia Sarrafian Ward A poet of distinction

A poet of distinction

Ghalib Halasa: excerpts from the novel Al-Khamasin

He left the entertainment business in 1971 to concentrate on a career in writing and his memoir of working in the music industry

The Travelling Tale is by Ali Mosbah

and turns her into an owl as punishment for her disloyalty

When Arthur Met Maggie Patricia Sarrafian Ward A poet of distinctionAlthough their relationship was one of the most important in post war public life, they never met. But for a year in the 1980s Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher were on opposite sides of a conflict that decided some of the most important questions in contemporary Britain. More than that, they were central to the process of bringing traditional British politics to an end. It was a meeting all right, in every sense but that of being in the same room