Spies, intellectuals and geniuses have lost their minds

Hussein Nashwan - Amman

Large cities and capitals are sheltering the many mysterious people who come and leave silently, but they leave behind a lot of stories and stories that people weave around them from fiction.

There are many urban displaced people, including intellectuals, scientists, traders and artists written about them by the press and their satellite channels, including the Iraqi atom scientist Hamid Khalaf Al-Aqili and the American vagabond Emily Zamorca, who sings opera in the subway of Los Angeles, Cisro Brazilian and others.

One of the stories about the homeless is the mute beggar who lived in Lebanon throughout the civil war from the mid-1970s until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. His smell was stinking, but he was not begging despite the kindness of the people.

Al-Akhras reportedly said that when the Israeli army entered Beirut, a car carrying an Israeli officer and soldiers stopped and stood up and talked to the officer who was alive, including a brief conversation before he entered the car.

It was also rumored that a man who was nicknamed the Greens for Greens was roaming the Jordanian capital Amman and working in the field of knives.He was dressed in a green uniform that he did not change.When the 1967 war disappeared, he was said to have been a spy for Israel, according to merchant Khalil Jaber Jaber.

Fiction characters
The Jordanian capital, Amman, is no different from Arab cities such as Cairo, Baghdad and Beirut, which embraced many of the homeless who could not cope with the city's social and economic pressure, so they slept in their faces sleeping in the open, spreading the earth and crawling the sky, and became part of the place and some of the text, story and history. His name was never known and people called Abu Cartonah or the mad Muhammad and other names.

Such characters inspired a number of writers to include their behaviors in a number of novels, story and cinematic films, such as the Zeta character in the novel "alley of the pupil" by Naguib Mahfouz, which turned into a film of the same title and his role was represented by the artist Tawfiq al-Duqen, or the character of the Herbid in the novel of the bottom of the country by Sobhi Fahmawi , The story of Habila Bushra of the Jordanian storyteller Ahmed Jaradat, and the story of Abdullah Hakani, in which the hero is engaged in the experience of homelessness to write a novel.

The storyteller Bassem al-Zu'bi (PhD and psychology) in an interview with the island Net that the personality of psychopaths out of the ordinary draws the attention of writers and artists, and often seen as a kind of madness that seems strange and takes the course of wisdom, pursuant to the popular saying that take wisdom from the mouths the crazy ones.

City violence
The cruelty of a city in the waves of the sea and the violence that some of the delinquents cannot adapt to its cruelty, according to French thinker Michel Foucault, seem to prompt some to retire to a world of their own.

Many mental illnesses arise within the city, including depression, anxiety, fear, mental illness and mood disorders that lead to some homelessness.

The Jordanian Ministry of Social Development estimated the number of homeless in the capital Amman at about thirty people - while the numbers are more than that - the majority of them are elderly people abandoned by their parents and blocked the way of life in their faces, or who were traumatized as is the case of Suleiman, who returned from Germany and lost his family and money, or The story of Napoleon Oman caused by a psychological problem.

Displacement mood
Nobody knows the reason for their displacement, but journalist Walid Suleiman says it is "the mood of displacement and distress fed up with the monotony of life." Engineer Mohammed Rafi wrote of Napoleon Oman as "the mood of the city's emperor who does not ask anyone for anything."

Suleiman recalls that the homeless Nabil Hassayin left his family's home on the street after returning from work in Saudi Arabia three decades ago as a surveyor trapped with books and accompanying cats, and that the death of his two brothers, a doctor in Spain and an engineer in Saudi Arabia, may have been linked to his behavior.

Husayn did not marry, he was tall and huge with a long white beard and shaggy hair wearing a worn garment and shoes worn around the streets of Amman and sympathize on the objects that he has forgotten more than humans, and then rest in the shade of a tree and collect cats around him buy sardines and meat, and says to her "feed you eating Dear and I eat cheap falafel. "

"He did not beg or talk to others," said Suleiman. "What he read is equivalent to a big truck load. He is obsessed with reading everything, even textbooks, the Qur'an, the Sunnah, biography, language, philosophy, stories of prophets, history and dictionaries."

Napoleon Amman
Ramadan Khalil, "Napoleon of Amman", despite his many names and titles ranging from Napoleon, Hitler, Lenin and Emperor, wears the clothes of the emperors of Europe and ancient knights, overpriced hats, boots with long legs in summer and winter, and a stick of glossy paper. Attaches to his chest proudly.

He roams the streets of downtown "with his head raised with pride and pride," said Khalil Jabr, who said he was the subject of Arab and international press and television reports.

Walid Suleiman said: `` Napoleon was not talking to passers-by and Afif was not begging for pride and speaking fluently in Arabic and English and reading newspapers and political and intellectual books, but it was not known that he was a skilled violin player, as the owner of Homsi Mills Magdy Homsi. ''

Suleiman recalled that Napoleon Amman was reportedly leftist and arrested in his hometown of Gaza and tortured in the prisons of the occupation that led to it.

One of the jokes is that he came across a beautiful girl in the street, and presented to her sermon by identifying himself as George, the King of Britain.