It includes various articles in various fields. It deals with ancient and modern Alexandria cafes and the anecdotes that happen there, and the foods that the people of popular neighborhoods in Alexandria eat, and the buying and selling movement there.
It tells about the migration of foreigners from Egypt after the July Revolution of 1952, leaving their apartments and large, famous shops to their workers. The poor popular neighborhood, in which the writer lived, witnessed many of these cases, which led to a change in the lives of the people there. Suddenly, they turned into rich people, owners of buildings and cars, after they had been poor and needy.
The book tells about the barefoot people in Egypt, the process of castration that was carried out in Upper Egypt, and the strange things that happen in the fish ring in Anfushi, and the owners of shrines and vows in Alexandria, and about the contest that often occurs in love and marriage between Muslims and Christians, and the demand for the establishment of the National Council for Men, so that men can obtain their rights from the oppression of women.