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The Street Philosopher & The Holy Fool

The Street Philosopher & The Holy Fool

Kociejowski, Marius

Paperback

Travel WritingGeneral Middle East

ISBN10: 1780600720
ISBN13: 9781780600727
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In the company of a witty, irreverent Canadian poet with a gift for listening, The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool allows us to eavesdrop on the lives of pre-civil-war Syrians - their beliefs, obsessions and everyday concerns. Concentrating on 'what is poetically rather than demonstrably true', Kociejowski ignores the politics of the Middle East and the usual obsession with earlier travellers. Instead he describes his friendships, nurtured over a period of ten years, with a cast of extraordinary characters: a faith-healing stigmatic, a desert father, an embittered Palestinian refugee and the philosopher and fool of the book's title.

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