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When Riad's Syrian father shows his son how to draw a Mercedes, he insists that the wheels are rectangular—one of many disjunctures between dogma and reality observed by the small child. Although Riad is born in France to a French mother, the family relocates to Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and then Bashar al-Assad's Syria, where despite idealistic propaganda, buildings crumble, food is scarce, squatters displace res...Log In or Sign Up to Read More