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The hero of this novel is an Egyptian Sudanese young man characterized by innocence and religiosity, working as a tour guide in Luxor and Aswan. The utmost dream of this young man was to marry a beautiful Nubian girl to start a happy peaceful life, but his peaceful and boring life system turns upside down after a meeting with Osama bin Laden in Sudan in the early nineties. The novel captivates us with its fast pace to follow the fate of its hero from Luxor to the Gulf, to Uzbekistan, then Afghanistan, and Guantanamo detention camp. Yusuf Zidan's poetic language makes us live a unique human experience, where reality mixes with imagination, and we embark with the hero on a journey to discover the secrets of the soul and the world. Book information: • Author: Yusuf Zidan • Year of publication: 2011 • Publisher: Al-Shorouk • Number of pages: 244