Glimpses of the Middle East John Whale

Glimpses of the Middle East John WhaleThe memoirs of Patience Moberly, wife to the British ambassador to Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The ambassadors wife knows everything, hears secrets, witnesses duplicity, but is not allowed to express a political opinion. Now, aged 93, she expresses her views plainly: the Iraq War was unnecessary and the plight of the Palestinians is appalling. John and Patience Moberly were responsible for starting and training the first Intensive Care Unit in Gaza,

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There are powerful poems here where we

In a broken-down Middle American town

Or the earth is reborn once again

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wild place where everyone is more than they appear and a single year can shape the course of a life

Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian writer and scholar

This is a moving story of a family’s beginnings

featuring a wrapped edition of this anthology for dog-lovers

The Zoo Father was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a poem from the book was also shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

Arthur and Bill are really very nice and we talk and laugh a lot together

It provides selections from each of her volumes of poetry published over a writing career that spans six decades