From there, the Ghali describes his turbulent life with Athill and his unabating struggles with alcohol dependency and depression, even as he shares insights about and sharp critique of the intellectual life in 1960s London. The Diaries also include a blow by blow account of his visit to Israel a few days after the 1967 War, the reasons that pushed him to go, and the people he met. A little before his painful suicide note, he describes the moment in which he found out that he had been stripped of his Egyptian passport.