The Arab of the Future 2
2015

In this second volume, Riad begins his first year of school in Syria (1984-1985), where learns to read Arabic. He 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 Brittany.

Rural life and the harsh school in Ter Maaleh; the black market in Homs; dinners at the home of his father’s megalomaniac cousin, a general with close ties to the regime; parched strolls through the ancient city of Palmyra: this second volume introduces us to the Sattouf family’s surreal lifestyle in the land of the dictator Hafez Al-Assad.