Dancing in the Dark (9781520335834)

Written by a bestselling author this is a faction novel of his time in The Middle East. It is the book that resulted in Nicholas Walker having all his possessions and over £50,000 confiscated and finally leading to his expulsion from Kuwait.All the characters in the novel are real people and the locations accurate. A'Takamul School is still operating with many of the same staff still working there and most of Nick's ex pupils still keep in touch with him from all over the world.The incidents and conversations that take place in the school and surrounding areas are entirely accurate, the attitude and prejudices of the government stays exactly the same. The escape across the desert is fictionalised but as Nick maintains, his beautiful girls would have acted in exactly that way.Nick's dance club, Dancing in the Dark, died when he was forced to make his escape from the country, dancing is still banned in most countries in The Middle East.Nick's Arab family and his blood brother still live in Kuwait, most of the girls have made good marriages. Nick managed to get Emad's other son out of Kuwait and into The French Foreign Legion.Sadly, the fate of The Bedoon remains the same!Synopsis Nick arrives in Kuwait to take up a position in a posh Arab school after a disastrous relationship in California. Quickly he becomes the favourite of the children though not of the school authorities who are horrified by his unorthodox methods. Discovering there is no dancing allowed between the sexes Nick sets up an illegal ballroom club called Dancing in the Dark which soon brings him into conflict with the police.Nick is adopted by a poor Arab family and soon learns of the plight of The Bedoon, the poor Arabs who live on the outskirts of society. When Emad's son is murdered by the police Nick takes the case to the International Press and is thrown into jail. Protected by his rich pupils he is still allowed to go on teaching and is finally released into house arrest where he leads the fight to get 30,000 Bedoon people civil rights, the struggle to get his pupils through their exams for college and still manages to run his dance club.The book ends with Nick and a dozen of his girls in an amazing escape across the desert. All this happens to the background of a growing love affair between Nick and an Arab girl, which is Haram (or forbidden) in Kuwait.This funny and poignant faction novel gives a day to day insight into the workings of The Middle East and introduces you the real people who live in the shadow of the terrorists.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 340 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 19mm | 499g
• Publication date 08 Jan 2017
• Publisher Independently Published
• Language English
• ISBN10 1520335830
• ISBN13 9781520335834

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