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Every volume of this autobiographical bande dessinée has been a bestseller in France and translated into over 20 languages. While L’Arab du Futur paints a harsh picture of life in Syria and Libya, it also reveals universal aspects of human existence: the controlling influences of loving parents, the emancipating admiration of grandparents, the fear of facing the first day in a new school, cousins and siblings that are both rivals and fierce defenders, adolescent concerns about attractiveness and sexuality, the desire to be accepted by others, … the list goes on.She draws parallels between the rural France of the past, exemplified by her elderly neighbor who lives in extremely rustic conditions, and the developing Arab world of the modern era. Aujourd'hui, je serais probablement capable de les apprécier parce que j'ai vu Riad grandir et évoluer, toujours avec ce regard sur sa propre histoire qui est à chaque fois si juste et en si grande adéquation avec son âge.

Sattouf speaks from the perspective of his two to six year old self, telling the story of his childhood in France, Libya, and Syria, and shifts color schemes as he moves from country to country. Barely passing in several classes, Sattouf was plagued with a scourge of social, familial, and all-too-real headaches. France is tinted light blue, and its art and media (such as radio, photographs and sculpture) are colored bright red. More than a collection of memories, [it is] a sincere testimony on integration, exchange and tolerance.In the same vein as Maus by Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, The Arab of the Future is an autobiographical and political graphic novel. An international publishing phenomenon, the six published volumes of The Arab of the Future have already sold more than 3. His parents had divorced and his father, Abel, had kidnapped his youngest brother, Fadi, and fled to Syria. Il raconte le combat toujours actif de sa mère pour récupérer Fadi et qui pense que son fils est resté petit, le vieillissement de ses grands-parents, l'aide qu'il apporte à sa famille pour renouer avec son père et Fadi en Syrie et l'inquiétude lors du déclenchement de la guerre en Syrie.

In this second volume, which covers his first year of school in Syria (1984-1985), he learns to read Arabic, gets to know his father’s side of the family, and does his best to make his father proud by becoming a real little Syrian boy… despite his blond hair and his two weeks’ vacation in France with his mom. Red is regularly applied to loud speech, danger and violence, while non-verbal noises (hisses and growls, for example) are green. At the sa e i e, it e plo es the i po ta e of self-ep ese taio a d pe so al e o to the p odu io of hu ou i Satouf s o k a d of a u usual p o i it to the odil hildhood/adoles e t o je t.This third volume sees him between the ages of six and nine, the time he becomes aware of the society he is growing up in. Under Sattouf’s pen, this state of affairs becomes an ingeniously apt microcosm of the larger world he grew up in.

In an interview with franceinfo:Culture Sattouf says that in this final book of the series he wanted to show how he became the person he is today despite his shortcomings and exceptional challenges.These odors tend to convey the quality of relationships, with Sattouf explaining, "the people whose odor I preferred were generally the ones who were the kindest to me. There’s a wizardry behind both his writing and drawing that yields a world rich with meaning and insinuation. Quand on connaît la difficulté à devenir auteur, être édité et gagner sa vie avec son art, c’est toujours une victoire que de voir un artiste devenir best seller. The voices of those who were judgmental to us in our youth can live on in our heads for years or even decades after they are no longer really in our lives, to our detriment. The young Riad associates new places and especially new people with their smells, ranging from perfume and incense to sweat, spoiled food, and flatulence.