The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984

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1Core Metadata

Title & Origin
Canonical title
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
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FR
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fr
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FR
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Graphic Novel
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published
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2014
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2Content

Synopsis

In The Arab of the Future, acclaimed cartoonist Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood moving between rural France, Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, and Hafez al-Assad's Syria in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through the eyes of a young boy with a Syrian father and French mother, the graphic memoir delivers a cross-cultural, political, and deeply personal portrait of life in the Middle East. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels/Comics.

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memoircross-culturalpoliticsfamily

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personalpolitical

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4Audience Intelligence

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4.1
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93.7
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Last updated
6/11/2026

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6Community Sentiment

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