L'arabo del futuro: una giovinezza in Medio Oriente #1

Riad Sattouf's L'arabo del futuro arrives in Italian through Rizzoli Lizard, chronicling a childhood in the Middle East between 1978 and 1984. The cover sets the tone beautifully: a family of three small figures — a woman, a child, and a man — walks past a towering propaganda billboard bearing a uniformed military portrait against a bold red-and-green backdrop, rendered in Sattouf's spare, expressive linework. It's a quietly striking image that captures the feeling of ordinary lives dwarfed by the political world surrounding them.