In his quest to shed the light on Egypt's contemporary hardships, the young Egyptian novelist (Ali Brisha) introduced his second novel “Journeys of Ibn Elbytar”.

Few months after the former president of Egypt Mubarak was ousted in 2011, the darker side of the Islamists and the extremist in Egypt surfaced all over the country . the novel is an in depth research to summarize the complicated relationships between the east and west since the crusades all the way through the modern ages.

The novel is named after Ibn Elbytar, who is the main character of the story. Ibn Elbytar is an imaginary character who lived in the 13th century. Ibn Elbytar would visit Europe at the peak of the dark ages, he is the son of a European Nobel who raped an Egyptian woman in Damietta during the seventh crusade which was led by King Louis IX of France. seeking to follow the traces of his dad, Ibn Elbytar starts his adventure sailing off to Europe while tense relationships between east and west dominated the scene , in his epic journey between the two shores of the Mediterranean he was captured in Cyprus, and his stay in Cyprus would reveal the Coptic roots of our Egyptian Moslem young adventurer, and would shed the light on the complicated and integrated life style of the Mediterranean people.

In parallel to the journey of Ibn Elbitar, the writer travels along with the other contemporary flip of the novel, which is represented by «Prof.Daniel».

Daniel is an Egyptian Archaeologist , who falls in love with his pretty Italian assistant during his scientific mission in Rome. The name of Daniel itself bares a variety of revelations . From one side the name of Daniel refers to a mosque in Alexandria, which is his home city that shaped out his Mediterranean identity, from the other side it refers to an Israelite profit mentioned in the old testament, referring to the homelessness suffered by the Israelite long time ago.

At the very end of the story the link between Daniel and Ibn Elbitar revealed, showing that the two different stories are actually the same story, but each is narrated counter-wise.