Cover of the book “Le jour où j'ai tout quitté” by Syed Muheeb Ali
France > Pakistan · Expat with no plan B

The dayI left everything.

A one-way ticket, a Parisian café, and eight years that changed everything. An honest account of what it means to choose a country against everyone's advice, and of everything that country can give back in return. The book is written in French.

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Contents

19 chapters,
one crossing.

From the one-way ticket to “What Pakistan gave me”: the story of a decision, told without a filter.

  1. The one-way ticket
  2. Nine in the morning, La Défense
  3. A lone soldier facing the crowd
  4. An office before a house
  5. The container and the last flight
  6. Five days in Clifton
  7. “Your mind is in Pakistan”
  8. A month of silence
  9. Faisalabad, in the middle of lockdown
  10. A camera on a desk
  11. The Makran Coastal Highway
  12. Those who build
  13. Grit over a degree
  14. Word of mouth
  15. The cake at Iqbal Manzil
  16. The legacy
  17. Three in the morning
  18. Hit hard, aim high
  19. What Pakistan gave me
“Your body is in France, but your mind is in Pakistan.”
A sentence my father kept repeating