
At one level, Robert Hackford`s immensely readable novel is about the tough world of intercontinental truck drivers, treacherous mountain passes, desert storms and TIR truck stops in the Middle East, focussing on the...
`Kamyonistan is not just a place... It`s a magical oasis we`ve constructed in our minds.` Bingo is right. The truck stop near Damascus is an oasis - a paradise, even - currently recovering from the harsh reality of an...
Kamyonistan has finally arrived. The truck stop in the desert near Damascus has witnessed its first birth – a surprise to all concerned – and is therefore a community. It’s also ‘a place in our heads’ as one truck...
As Ro and Nuri pursue their quest for an Islamic booklet that supports ijtihad, or a revision of strict Muslim laws and codes of conduct, we follow them to Cairo, Aswan, Aqaba, Petra, and finally back to Kamyonistan...
