These memoirs were published in the 1920s, as told by their author, Abdel Aziz al-Nuss, a man who dedicated his life to pickpocketing in Cairo. His life was filled with fascinating details, brimming with the secrets of the pickpocket world of that era. The memoirs caused a great stir upon their publication, as they represented genuine confessions, published for the first time in an Egyptian book by a former pickpocket before he cleansed himself of his past and began a completely different chapter of life. These memoirs remain among the most unusual writings in the Arab journalistic archives, depicting situations that are sometimes amusing and at other times bizarre. The man wanted his memory to be immortalized, even if only within the annals of pickpocketing and pickpockets.