L'Arabe du futur: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient

Riad Sattouf’s autobiographical series, published by Allary Éditions from 2014 onward, chronicles his childhood shuttling between rural France and the complex, shifting landscape of Gaddafi-era Libya and Assad’s Syria. Through the eyes of his younger self, Sattouf—both writer and artist—captures the clash of cultures, his father’s pan-Arab idealism, and the surreal, often harsh realities of life under dictatorships. With a deceptively simple, expressive line and a wry, unflinching tone, the six-issue series stands as a poignant, intimate memoir of identity and displacement in the modern Middle East.