Currently finalizing the second to last volume of his other successful series Cahiers d’Esther (published by Allary), Sattouf kept quiet about the "numerous projects" he is working on. Sattouf, whose mother is French and father is Syrian, zigzagged his way through childhood, moving between his parents’ respective homelands as well as Libya. The next frame zooms in on what Sattouf sees when he goes to collect their haul: the sparrow's feet, blown apart from their bodies, still clinging to the telephone wire. Venturing first to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner.

She draws parallels between the rural France of the past, exemplified by her elderly neighbor who lives in extremely rustic conditions, and the developing Arab world of the modern era. In English translation as The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East (Henry Holt, New York). Issu d'un milieu pauvre, féru de politique et obsédé par le panarabisme, Abdel-Razak Sattouf élève son fils Riad dans le culte des grands dictateurs arabes, symboles de modernité et de puissance virile.Told through a little boys eyes, we see the crazy, third-world conditions he grows up in under two dictators, first Gaddafi and then al-Aasad. Despite his father’s determination to integrate his son into Arab society, little Sattouf—with his long blonde hair—never fully fits in, and this report reads like the curious pondering of an alien from another world.

This book is the start of a graphic novel that has filled the void I had ever since I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude.Abu-Riad", is a hypocritical, bigoted, cowardly man who somehow lucked-on a beautiful wife and started a family.