a]A truck perpetrates a deliberate accident on the car traveling the desert road from Cairo to Alexandria. Orphaned at seven, Miki, with his nanny Nashwa, flees from his motheras assassins to the Sinai Peninsula where he joins a Bedouin tribe. During his sojourn in the desert, Miki earns the title of El-BadawiaThe Bedouinaafter singlehandedly defeating a group of bandits. He accidentally witnesses the slaying of a group of tourists by religious fanatics and questions their ruthless beliefs. He leaves the Bedouin tribe and returns to Cairo to avenge his motheras death. His journeys entangle him with conniving concubines, religious zealots, and hired killers. He falls in love with a female Israeli pilot he rescues in the desert after her aircraft is shot down, and his abhorrence of the religious extremism that rapidly sweeps through Egypt increases. Being unable to comprehend the command that all non-Muslims must be killed in the name of Allah, he begins to study the religion and why its followers believe as they do. He finally returns to the Bedouin tribe to visit Nashwa and discovers that she has had a son whoa] If you have not read Markos Moschosa work previously, you are in for a captivating pleasure. Seek also to read Markos Moschosa Winsome Destiny and The Medallion.