Le cinquième tome relate la vie de sa famille après l'enlèvement de Fadi, son plus jeune frère, par son père. Riad raconte le déchirement entre sa vie «d'adolescent» englobant ses questionnements sur son avenir, son cercle social et sa découverte du sentiment amoureux, et sa vie de famille marquée par l'enlèvement de Fadi, les moyens mis en œuvre pour le retrouver et l'image du père salie. a et b Vincent Brunner, « Riad Sattouf, la mémoire vive de «L'Arabe du futur»», sur Slate, 2 juin 2014 (consulté le 27 décembre 2016)

As you would expect, it’s mostly focused on Riad and his family but we also learn what life was like in these countries at the time as well. For example Libya under Gaddafi where housing was free to all - like a bizarre game of finders keepers, you found somewhere that was empty and moved in! - and the basic foods that were doled out to everyone because supermarkets didn’t exist. It was a third world country and, reading the excerpts from Gaddafi’s Green Book here, it’s easy to see why conditions were so bad when this lunatic was running the show! Michel Hazanavicius, Academy Award-winning director of The Artist, proclaims “Seriously funny and penetratingly honest, Riad Sattouf tells the epic story of his eccentric and troubled family. Written with tenderness, grace, and piercing clarity, The Arab of the Future is one of those books that transcend their form to become a literary masterpiece." [8]

Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future." Early in the story, the elder Sattouf proclaims, "I'd change everything among the Arabs. I'd force them to stop being bigots, to educate themselves, and to enter into the modern world. I'd be a good President." Sattouf is choosing what to tell us about his upbringing with the consciousness of an adult. He shows the peculiarities of early education in France, and Syria. Both have failures, as a system. It’s a wonder we survive at all, but less surprising that we exhibit the flaws we do. He has a finely honed skill for cutting away the extraneous, and revealing the kernel of his experience. He makes it laughable, but at heart, it is also terrifying.

Julia Dumont, « L’Arabe du futur 2: l’enfance syrienne de Riad Sattouf séduit les lecteurs», sur france24.com, 14 juin 2015 (consulté le 28 septembre 2015).a b c d Shatz, Adam (15 October 2015). "Drawing Blood". The New Yorker . Retrieved 4 February 2016. a et b Cyril Coantiec, « Riad Sattouf remporte le grand prix RTL de la BD 2014», sur lefigaro.fr, 28 novembre 2014 (consulté le 28 septembre 2015). L'Arabe du futur de Riad Sattouf remporte le Los Angeles Times Book Prize», sur L'Obs (consulté le 12 avril 2016)

Arnaud Mulpas, Nassim Aziki et Riad Sattouf, « Riad Sattouf présente L'Arabe du futur 4 sur RTL», RTL,‎ 26 septembre 2018 ( lire en ligne)La réception critique dans le monde est excellente [15 ]: le tome 2 est élu «roman graphique du mois» par le journal anglais The Guardian [16 ] et le New York Times le qualifie d' «artistiquement exceptionnel» [17 ]. The author speaking of his father: "In 1967 he had been devastated by the Six Day War, when Egypt, Jordan and Syria were crushed by the Israelis. Then, in 1973, like all the Syrians of his generation he managed to transform the Arab defeat in the Yom Kippur War into an "almost victory".

a b et c (en) Adam Shatz, « Drawing Blood», sur The New Yorker, 19 octobre 2015 (consulté le 27 décembre 2016)

Los Angeles Book Prizes 2015 dans la catégorie Graphic Novel/comics [22 ] , [23 ] pour la version américaine ( The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir) Clémentine has refused to take the family to Saudi Arabia, so instead she and the children are living in Brittany without Abdul-Razak. At the end of the school term, he pays them a surprise visit and takes them on holiday to Syria. The following year, Clémentine and the children again spend the school year in Brittany, then join Abdul-Razak in Syria for the holidays. He has become a more devout muslim, and strongly disapproves of Clémentine's secular ideas. By the end of the volume, tensions between Clémentine and Abdul-Razak lead to their breakup. Abdul-Razak takes the family's savings and their youngest child Fadi to Syria, leaving Clémentine in Brittany with the two older children. Sonia Déchamp, « La véritable épopée de l' Arabe du futur», Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée, n o5,‎ octobre-décembre 2018, p.126-129 Riad Sattouf: avec L'Arabe du futur 4 "'je ne paie plus l'ISF qui n'existe plus"», sur Challenges (consulté le 28 août 2019) sa sortie, le premier tome connait un succès critique [8 ]. Il remporte différents prix, dont le Fauve d'or d’Angoulême [9 ].