This week, Dariush Ashuri—writer, linguist, translator and thinker—responds in a special in-depth session to questions by Fahimeh Khazraei. In this exclusive interview conducted in Paris, the city where he lives, for the first time he addresses many of the questions, criticisms and recent political controversies surrounding him, and says things he had never shared with any other media before.

Watch “In-Depth with Dariush Ashuri” on Saturday, 10 Mordad, at 10:00 p.m. Iran time.