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

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Young Riad is now a teenager and the tension between his two cultures - French and Syrian - fuling gis parents' conflict reaches a breaking point. Riad's father, Abdel-Razak, leaves to ork in Saudi Arabia and, after making the pilgrimage to Mecca, turns toward religion; Riad, in France, turns instead to his new discoveries - grils and Tom Cruise. Clementine, Riad's mother, is finally happy, back in a country where women have rights... Until Abdel-Razak shows up, leading the family on yet another journey, one that culminates in an act of unfathomable pain.