Naim Attallah
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'''Naim Ibrahim Attallah''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} ({{langx|ar|نعيم إبراهيم عطالله}}, 1 May 1931 – 2 February 2021){{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/quartet-chairman-naim-attallah-dies-aged-89-1236163|title=Quartet chairman Naim Attallah dies, aged 89|first=Mark|last=Chandler|work=[[The Bookseller]]|date=4 February 2021|access-date=4 February 2021}} was a Palestinian-British businessman and writer. |
'''Naim Ibrahim Attallah''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} ({{langx|ar|نعيم إبراهيم عطالله}}, 1 May 1931 – 2 February 2021){{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/quartet-chairman-naim-attallah-dies-aged-89-1236163|title=Quartet chairman Naim Attallah dies, aged 89|first=Mark|last=Chandler|work=[[The Bookseller]]|date=4 February 2021|access-date=4 February 2021}} was a Palestinian-British businessman and writer. In the early 1970s, he fell in with John Asprey, heir to the [[Asprey|luxury goods group]], and under his patronage became joint managing director and eventually group chief executive, expanding the company greatly. On the way up Attallah acquired, independently, [[Quartet Books]] (1976), [[The Women’s Press]] (1977) and several magazines, including [[The Wire (magazine)|''The'' ''Wire'']], ''[[The Oldie]]'' and the [[Literary Review|''Literary'' ''Review'',]] the last of which lost him, over time, an estimated £2.5m. |
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From 1976 Naim Attallah was the publisher of [https://quartetbooks.co.uk/ Quartet Books] and from 1977 the joint owner of [[The Women's Press]] with [[Stephanie Dowrick]]. |
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The [[Palestine (region)|Palestinian]]-born entrepreneur was described by ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2000 as a "legendary adorer of beautiful women".{{cite web|title=Farewell, my lovelies |work=The Guardian|first=Sally|last=Weale|url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,403383,00.html|date=27 November 2000|access-date=14 June 2024}} [[The Standard (London newspaper)|The Standard]] reporter, Penny Perrick wrote, "In his native Palestine Naim Attallah was an only son, sharing a house with his mother, three sisters, his grandmother and aunt, 'Which is perhaps why I feel so at home with them in my working life.'{{Cite news |last=Perrick |first=Penny |date=4 May 1982 |title=The Standard}} |
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Attallah was born in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] in 1931 to a Catholic family. He was the owner of the publishing house Quartet Books, which was founded in 1972 by Ken Banerji, John Boothe, William Miller and Brian Thompson, and taken over by Attallah in 1976.{{cite web |url=http://quartetbooks.co.uk/about |title=About |website=Quartet Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520083211/http://quartetbooks.co.uk/about |archive-date=20 May 2014 |access-date=3 October 2013 |url-status=live }} Attallah was a backer of the ''[[Literary Review]]'' and ''[[The Oldie]]''.{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/oldie-celebrates-and-recognises-its-debt-to-naim-7906036.html |title=Oldie celebrates and recognises its debt to Naim |website=[[London Evening Standard]] |date= 3 July 2012 |access-date=14 June 2024}} He was also the owner of the London-based The Women's Press,{{cite web |first=Miranda |last=Seymour |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664848/But-did-the-Medicis-have-as-much-fun.html# |title=But did the Medicis have as much fun? |work=The Telegraph |date=3 May 2007 |access-date=14 June 2024}} established in 1977;{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103231942/https://www.bookblast.com/popups/mediareleases/attallahmemoir1.pdf |website=BookBlast |title=The Old Ladies of Nazareth (Media Release) |archive-date=3 January 2014 |url=https://www.bookblast.com/popups/mediareleases/attallahmemoir1.pdf}} it was founded by him and [[Stephanie Dowrick]]. |
Attallah was born in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] in 1931 to a Catholic family. He was the owner of the publishing house Quartet Books, which was founded in 1972 by Ken Banerji, John Boothe, William Miller and Brian Thompson, and taken over by Attallah in 1976.{{cite web |url=http://quartetbooks.co.uk/about |title=About |website=Quartet Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520083211/http://quartetbooks.co.uk/about |archive-date=20 May 2014 |access-date=3 October 2013 |url-status=live }} Attallah was a backer of the ''[[Literary Review]]'' and ''[[The Oldie]]''.{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/oldie-celebrates-and-recognises-its-debt-to-naim-7906036.html |title=Oldie celebrates and recognises its debt to Naim |website=[[London Evening Standard]] |date= 3 July 2012 |access-date=14 June 2024}} He was also the owner of the London-based The Women's Press,{{cite web |first=Miranda |last=Seymour |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3664848/But-did-the-Medicis-have-as-much-fun.html# |title=But did the Medicis have as much fun? |work=The Telegraph |date=3 May 2007 |access-date=14 June 2024}} established in 1977;{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103231942/https://www.bookblast.com/popups/mediareleases/attallahmemoir1.pdf |website=BookBlast |title=The Old Ladies of Nazareth (Media Release) |archive-date=3 January 2014 |url=https://www.bookblast.com/popups/mediareleases/attallahmemoir1.pdf}} it was founded by him and [[Stephanie Dowrick]]. |
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