After Coffee Medhat taking with him the French

taking with him the French girl-next-door in whom he finds a proxy for the love of his deceased sister

life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation

existing in the feelings of always being on the outside desperately looking to fit in

With the rise of children's literature in Arab countries in general and Qatar in particular

In a grueling trudge across Arabia

After Coffee Medhat taking with him the FrenchMedhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuttling between various farming families in the beautiful province of Sharkia, east of the Nile Delta. What was intended to be a brief visit for the five year old to Ismailia, a beautiful and cosmopolitan city in the Suez Canal zone, ends up being the beginning of a nomadic life no one could have imagined. Medhats journey takes him across the many landmarks of Egypt and beyond, all the way to Vienna where he