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The Arab of the Future (French: L'Arabe du futur) is a graphic memoir by French cartoonist Riad Sattouf. The work recounts Sattouf's childhood growing up in France, Libya and Syria in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The first volume of L'Arabe du futur won the 2015 Fauve d’Or prize for best graphic novel at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
May 15, 2014 · The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father.
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Riad Sattouf was born in Paris, to a Syrian father and Breton mother, and spent his childhood in Libya and Syria, then returned to France to spend his teenage years in Brittany, studying in Rennes. An avid reader of cartoon books and periodicals, sent to him by his grandmother, he was fascinated by them. Although he was studying to become a ...
Nov 9, 2015 · His French Catholic mother met his Syrian, Sunni Muslim father when they were students at the Sorbonne University. After Sattouf was born, his father got a job teaching at a university in...
Oct 12, 2015 · One morning in mid-July, Sattouf, a French-Syrian comic-book artist who has recently emerged as France’s best-known graphic novelist, took me there, along with his year-old son, his son’s Ivorian...
Sep 21, 2016 · In the 1980s, as the child of a Syrian father and a French mother, Sattouf traveled from France to Libya and Syria, before returning as a teenager to France in 1990. Riad now works in Paris...
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Apr 2, 2017 · Riad Sattouf was born in Paris in 1978 to a French mother and a Syrian father. He grew up in Libya and Syria, before moving with his mother and brother to Brittany, France, when he was a...
