The Arab of the Future 3
2016

After having followed her husband to Libya and then to Syria, Riad’s mother can’t take any more of village life in Ter Maaleh. She wants to go back to France. Riad sees his father torn between his wife’s aspirations and the weight of family traditions…

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. Can you celebrate Christmas in Ter Maaleh? Were there video clubs in Homs? How do children of eight fast for Ramadan? Was Conan the Barbarian circumcised? Were Breton villagers kinder to their animals than their Syrian counterparts? How far will Riad go to please his father? And how far will his father go to become an important man in the Syria of Hafez Al-Assad?