Musa Moris Farhi MBE, FRSL (5 July 1935 – 5 March 2019)[1] was a Turkish author who was vice-president of International PEN from 2001 until his death in 2019.
He wrote many television scripts such as The Onedin Line 1972 episode "Beyond the Upper Sea"; a film, The Primitives; and a stage play, From The Ashes of Thebes.
"God Save Us From Religion" is included in the collection Free Expression is No Offence (edited by Lisa Appignanesi, published by Penguin Books, 2005).
Farhi's works have been translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish.
He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 16 June 2001 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to literature.
He drafted scripts for the serial "Farewell, Great Macedon" and the stand-alone episode "The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance", neither of which ultimately entered production.