The book offers a sharp and imaginative reflection on the interweaving of personal and national or ideological dreams. Its chapters explore the fictions and facts constructed within both realms, and how one navigates a path through them - guided by a multitude of philosophers, thinkers, and ideas (from Sartre to Žižek, Abdel Nasser to Ibn Taymiyya, among others) that shape the author’s life, studies, and aspirations.