Naim Ibrahim Attallah CBE (Arabic: نعيم إبراهيم عطالله, 1 May 1931 – 2 February 2021)[2] was a Palestinian-British businessman and writer.
The Palestinian-born entrepreneur was described by The Guardian in 2000 as a "legendary adorer of beautiful women".
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.
[5] He was also the owner of the London-based The Women's Press,[6] established in 1977;[7] it was founded by him and Stephanie Dowrick.
[10] According to Jennie Erdal's 2005 memoir Ghosting,[11] she was the ghostwriter of “speeches, newspaper articles, a dozen works of nonfiction and two novels”[12] in addition to “hundreds of letters”[13] The last part of her book’s dedication states that he “inspired this story and allowed it to be told.”[14] Attallah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to literature and the arts.