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Few are the people whose lives reflect the events of their time, as is the case with Abdel Bari Atwan. This Palestinian, who was born in a refugee camp in Gaza in 1950, left it at the age of seventeen and has since become one of the most important writers, experts and commentators on Middle East issues. In this biography, the author recounts the details of his extraordinary journey with humor and a lot of honesty. Atwan depicts the horror of the horrific massacres committed in the camps, and the unexpected results of the British intervention in the region. After the hardships of life, suffering, and the ordeal of displacement, and the beginning of his Palestinian alienation with words and geography, from Palestine to Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia and ending with Britain, the author talks about the cultural shock that accompanied his move to London in the seventies of the last century, and tells the story of his taking his British-born son and daughter to get acquainted with His family still lives in a miserable camp in the Gaza Strip.