Framtidens arab: En barndom i Mellanöstern #6

Riad Sattouf's celebrated autobiographical series reaches its sixth and final Swedish-language volume with this 2023 Cobolt Förlag edition, subtitled En barndom i Mellanöstern (1994–2011). The cover, drawn by Sattouf himself, is striking: a large, smoky portrait of Bashar al-Assad draped with a Syrian flag looms in the background, while in the foreground a young boy points forward determinedly as a girl clings to his arm, and several other figures populate the scene against a vivid orange palette. It's a visually charged composition that captures the tension between childhood innocence and the weight of history that defines this remarkable memoir series.