Badawi: A NovelPublished to wide critical acclaim in France, Badawi is Mohed Altrads heartrending debut novel, inspired by the authors 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 boys powerful father, leaving Maouf to his scornful grandmother. Though the Bedouin tribes have stopped their centuries long travels across