MPT 22: Poets at Bush House: the BBC World Service Richard Aronowitz Learning English by Rachid al-Daif

Learning English by Rachid al-Daif translated by Paula and Adnan Haydar

for the clouds to open

missionaries

John Grande

dentist-cum-novelist Alaa al-Aswany (who authored the best-selling The Yacoubian Building)

MPT 22: Poets at Bush House: the BBC World Service Richard Aronowitz Learning English by Rachid al-DaifThe original intention with this issue had been to celebrate the World Service of the BBC to which MPT in its formative years, owed so much. The aim was to produce an issue which would represent a substantial selection of the many languages in which the BBC broadcasts from Bush House. (By the end of WWII the Corporation was already broadcasting in forty five languages.) When MPT was founded, one of its first ports of call was Bush House. We soon