Rushdie Haunted by his unholy Ghosts — Page 191
A BOU T T HE AU T HOR Mohamed Arshad Ahmedi was born in Kenya in 1952, and moved to England at the age of 15 to complete his education. He settled permanently when the rest of his family joined him during the period of the Asian exodus from East Africa in the late 1960’s. Arshad is now a well known member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in the UK. He has served in the administration in sev- eral capacities and is currently Secretary Publications. He has also co-ordinated numerous sponsored marathon walks and a cycle mar- athon raising thousands of pounds for UK based charities including Imperial Cancer Research and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Arshad has always maintained a keen interest in comparative religion. He has delivered numerous lectures on the subject of the assimilation of Muslims within the Western culture. He has been doing research on Christianity, Judaism and Islam for several years, and more recently on the Satanic Verses controversy. Arshad is a Regulatory Affairs consultant in the pharmaceutical industry by profession, and is married with three children, and two lovely grandchildren, Anam and Roshaan.