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The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East Vol. 1
Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Brittany, where he lives with his...
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Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Brittany, where he lives with his mother and brother and attends high school in Rennes. But his adolescence is anything but typical. Born to a Syrian father and a French mother, Riad spent much of his early childhood in Libya, rural Syria, and France--moving through contrasting worlds, political ideologies, and daily absurdities. Years earlier, his father--charismatic, authoritarian, and obsessed with dictators and with building a utopian Arab society--abducted Riad's second younger brother, Fadi, and returned to Syria, leaving behind a fractured family.
Author: Riad Sattouf
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.86w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9798875002373
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2026
Foreword 04/27/2026
About the Author
Sattouf, Riad: - Riad Sattouf is a French-Syrian cartoonist and filmmaker. His works often explore from an observational lens the characteristics and contradictions of the French and Arab identities, and the meeting point between. With his multi-volume Arab of the Future series, chronicling his upbringing in Libya, Syria and France, he received widespread international acclaim and recognition. His comics work has won him the René Goscinny award at Angoulême International Comics Festival and his work in film has won him the César Award.Taylor, Sam: - Sam Taylor?is a literary translator and novelist.?He is the author of five novels and the translator of more than 70 books from French, ?including bestsellers such as Leïla Slimani's?The Perfect Nanny, award winners such as Maylis de Kerangal's?The Heart, and classics such as Marcel Proust's?The Seventy-Five Folios. He was born in England, spent a decade in France and now lives in the United States.
At 14, Riad navigates puberty, isolation, and the pressures of French society, while haunted by the absence of his father and brother, and the sadness of his mother. He turns to books, heavy metal, and drawing as refuge. The tone is darkly comic and sharply observant, capturing both the universal pains of adolescence and the surreal contradictions of the 1990s. Blending personal story and social commentary, this standalone volume offers a biting, poignant portrait of a young man coming of age in a world that feels both familiar and foreign.
The End of the Arab of the Future is the first book in a two-volume series that concludes the critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel begun in Arab of the Future.
Author: Riad Sattouf
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.86w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9798875002373
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/20/2026
Foreword 04/27/2026
About the Author
Sattouf, Riad: - Riad Sattouf is a French-Syrian cartoonist and filmmaker. His works often explore from an observational lens the characteristics and contradictions of the French and Arab identities, and the meeting point between. With his multi-volume Arab of the Future series, chronicling his upbringing in Libya, Syria and France, he received widespread international acclaim and recognition. His comics work has won him the René Goscinny award at Angoulême International Comics Festival and his work in film has won him the César Award.Taylor, Sam: - Sam Taylor?is a literary translator and novelist.?He is the author of five novels and the translator of more than 70 books from French, ?including bestsellers such as Leïla Slimani's?The Perfect Nanny, award winners such as Maylis de Kerangal's?The Heart, and classics such as Marcel Proust's?The Seventy-Five Folios. He was born in England, spent a decade in France and now lives in the United States.
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