Work in Progress

Working Title: 

Travelling Round Syria Digressing to Baghdad

Sample Chapter:
Chapter 20 - The Mystery of Islam and the Music of Sufism
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Sample Chapter:
Chapter  22 - Crossing the border into Iraq

The taxi driver says I now have to go to the medical centre for my anti-Aids injection. This is the real obstacle, the one I have been dreading. To enter Iraq, you have to have either a certificate stating you are Aids free – a certificate which might or might not be accepted by the border people – or you have to submit to having an anti-Aids injection right here in this hell-like place of dilapidated buildings, diesel fumes, revving truck engines, glaring lights and men hoping for backhanders…
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