When Arthur Met Maggie Patricia Sarrafian Ward Ghalib Halasa: excerpts from the

Ghalib Halasa: excerpts from the novel Al-Khamasin

The collection contains poems of nature

A poet of distinction

the first time this award was given to a poet

Competing with the Piano Tuner

When Arthur Met Maggie Patricia Sarrafian Ward Ghalib Halasa: excerpts from theAlthough 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