Badawi

“Poetically depicts a Bedouin boy’s extended coming of age and the uneasy navigation of his transition from provincial Syria to the West.” — Publishers Weekly   Published to wide critical acclaim in France,  Badawi  is Mohed Altrad’s heartrending debut novel, inspired by the author’s own narrative arc from Bedouin orphan to engineer and finally billionaire businessman.   In the Syrian desert, a young boy watches as his mother dies. She was a repudiated woman, abandoned by the