Might be the most "eventful" volume of the series, making it probably be the easiest and most straightforward movie adaptation of all the Arab of the Futures. This is partially because by this time in his young life, Riad is old enough to be more aware of what's going on around him, and also because the conflict between his mother and father has finally come to the surface. Arab of the Future 4 displayed a harsher view of France than the previous volumes; it seemed bleaker, & more racist & tribal. I wonder if that's because Riad just started noticing different things about France at this point in his life (because he's older, and he's spending more time there), or if there's some retrospective reason for him to bring these issues up. Finally, I found it interesting that young Sattouf forgot & re-learned Arabic whenever he left & came back to Syria. A little bit surprised that this isn't the final volume, but I won't be surprised again. I look forward to reading all of the other volumes which I will expect to see with regularity until either Sattouf dies and thus runs out of new material or I do and thus stop looking forward to anything.