After Coffee Medhat existing in the feelings of

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

In a grueling trudge across Arabia

where he received his university education years ago

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

as well as a number of manuscripts and decrees issued by the sultans of the states of the Islamic East

After Coffee Medhat existing in the feelings ofMedhat 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