# Riad Sattouf
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riad sattouf (Arabic: رياض سطوف; born 5 May 1978) is a French cartoonist, comic artist, and film director of Franco-Syrian origin. Sattouf is best known for his award-winning graphic memoir pentalogy L'Arabe du futur (The Arab of the Future) and for his award-winning film Les Beaux Gosses (The French Kissers). He also worked for the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo for ten years, from 2004 to mid-2014, publishing drawing boards of one of his major works La vie secrète des jeunes.
Panel Borders: The Arab of the Future
The Arab of the Future: Alex Fitch talks to Charlie Hebdo alumnus Riad Sattouf about the first volume of his autobiographical strips about growing up in France, and the Middle East published as The Arab of the Future by Two Roads Books. Alex and Riad explore how the book relates to the latter’s exp…
A social democratic vision of German foreign policy
With Angela Merkel stepping down as Chancellor, the next German federal elections scheduled for this September promise to mark a turning point for Germany. Foreign policy issues promise to be a crucial part of the election campaign. In this week’s podcast, host Mark Leonard talks to Niels Annen, Mi…
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins Talks: Power & World Comics, Systems Of Power, & Place
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins takes us on a journey into art, money, power & planetary comics, including gatekeeping & capitalist global systems of power; politics of exclusion; formal elements of comics that resist conventions of reading and convey resistant political worldviews. Discussion includes Mag…
International Graphic Novels (ReadRadio, Ep. 40)
Listen in while Sarah and Kerry share some of the standout graphic novels in FVRL’s collection!
1. The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf.
2 Hostage by Guy Delisle.
3. Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley.
4. Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol.
THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE VOLS. 1-4 ...culture clashes everywhere
We look at the first four of cartoonist Riad Sattouf's six-volume epic memoir about growing up in France and Syria (the fifth volume came out in November 2020 in French).
A unique, nuanced, and disturbing look at a childhood that takes place between two very different cultures.
French city of Angoulême celebrates half a century of comics and cartoons
Angoulême is once again the centre of the world for graphic novelists, as the French city hosts the 50th edition of its international comics festival. Our reporters have been speaking to best-selling author Riad Sattouf, who received the festival's Grand Prix this year. Meanwhile, cartoonist Tom Ga…
Article: Esther’s Notebooks (2023)
One of the greatest literary tragedies of the 21st century (so far) has been the inexplicable decision not to publish the final two volumes of Riad Sattouf’s groundbreaking biographical masterwork Arab of the Future in English. The first volume was published back in 2015 to major acclaim, while the…
More to Come 559: Stargazing for March 2023
In a Stargazing review segment, Meg and Calvin discuss ‘Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story’ by Julia Wertz, a bleakly humorous graphic account of struggles with both alcoholism and group therapy; and ‘Esther’s Notebooks’ by French cartoonist Riad Sattouf, a page-turning comics r…
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