These memoirs express the intellectual, political, and social aspects of the writer and thinker Muhammad Hussein Heikal, in his early youth, and the extent to which he benefited from his numerous travels to France, Italy, Switzerland, Palestine, and Lebanon. The memoirs also dealt with many intellectual and social issues, such as the idea of ​​reforming personal laws, the political economy, the rules of ethics, and the liberation of women. These issues were not of a purely theoretical nature; Rather, it touched people's lives.