They met when Clémentine took pity on Abdul-Razak's clueless failure to attract a friend of hers.Ī major theme of the novel is how young Riad looks up to his father as a hero. He describes himself as a “perfect” little boy with "platinum-blonde hair" and “bright puppy-dog eyes.” Riad is the eldest son of Clémentine, a reserved French woman, and Abdul-Razak Sattouf, a flamboyant Sunni-Syrian man. The Arab of the Future begins in France, where Riad Sattouf is born in 1978. In 2020, Sattouf announced the memoir's fifth volume was finished with only one extra volume pending before finalizing the saga. Although both appear autobiographical, at least one reviewer calls into question elements of Sattouf's life story and family history. Both The Arab of the Future and La Vie Secrète des Jeunes are written from Sattouf's point of view, with the former describing his childhood and the latter his daily observations as an adult. Purposefully written from the perspective of a child, Sattouf employs simplistic yet comprehensive drawings that are more rudimentary than, yet not entirely dissimilar to, his other works such as La vie secrète des jeunes, his column in the famous satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. I'd force them to stop being bigots, to educate themselves, and to enter into the modern world.
Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future." Early in the story, the elder Sattouf proclaims, "I'd change everything among the Arabs. The first volume of L'Arabe du futur won the 2015 Fauve d’Or prize for best graphic novel at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. The work recounts Sattouf's childhood growing up in France, Libya and Syria in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The Arab of the Future ( French: L'Arabe du futur) is a graphic memoir by award-winning French-Syrian cartoonist Riad Sattouf. Autobiographical graphic novel series by Riad Sattouf The Arab of the Future
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