And you're the reason, Dad.

Nawara, daughter of the great poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, says in the introduction to this enjoyable biography, full of funny and tear-jerking moments: "My father and his memories never left my mind; he was never just a memory. He was always present... I will only tell my story (his story) through a camera fixed in the eye of a child, then a teenager, then a young woman who lived in the shadow of an exceptional person on both creative and human levels, experiencing events, some of which she didn't understand, and normalized most of them, believing that this was the nature of things. Then, upon maturing, she realized that it wasn't so, and that there was a human experience worth telling, even if it seemed ordinary."