Riad Sattouf Kidnapping

Riad sattouf s graphic memoir series the arab of the future details a journey taken in precisely the opposite direction several decades ago but it s one that nevertheless provokes many of.

Riad sattouf kidnapping. Riad sattouf s biting graphic memoir ignores the big picture of politics in the middle east and focuses instead on daily life and the imposition of authority through violence. Little riad now in middle school watches as his parents marriage the union of a french woman and a syrian arab with a phd from the sorbonne crumbles. One of riad sattouf s favorite places in paris is the musée du quai branly a temple of ethnographic treasures from africa asia oceania and the americas not far from the eiffel tower. We must presume as we have throughout the first books that grown up sattouf has been an honest and accurate witness to the events he describes pictorially and in words.