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Hippy days, Arabian nights, from life in the bush to love on the Nile, Katherine Boland

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Hippy days, Arabian nights

Katherine Boland

from life in the bush to love on the Nile

Spanning five decades and as many continents Hippy Days, Arabian Nights tells the story of Australian artist Katherine Boland who has grabbed life by the throat and jumped in feet first. Recounting her experience of life in a hippy community that sprang up in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales as part of the counterculture movement, an overlooked and relatively untapped period in Australian modern history, Katherine and her boyfriend John, like many idealistic young students of the time, abandoned their university studies and leave Melbourne to pursue a sustainable and independent life in the bush. Her life takes a dramatic turn when prior to the Egyptian revolution in 2010, Katherine receives an invitation from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to participate in an International Artists' Symposium. And so begins her next fateful and totally unplanned foray into the unknown - falling head over heels in love for an Egyptian journalist twenty-seven years her junior at first sight. Her ideas and preconceptions about Islam and the Middle East are challenged as her relationship evolves and deepens over the next six years

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