Like father, like son? Not so for French cartoonist Riad Sattouf.

The former Charlie Hebdo staffer is still trying to make sense of his father's life choices: A professorship in Libya instead of Ivy League Oxford. A life in rural Syria instead of cosmopolitan France. An embrace of bigoted and sexist ideas despite exposure to the alternatives.

Sattouf — who developed his unique outsider's perspective while growing up under dictatorship — joins guest host Gill Deacon to discuss his formative years, his struggle to understand his father, and his newly-translated memoir, The Arab of the Future.

WEB EXTRA | See a selection of panels from Sattouf's new book.