{"product_id":"stephanie-s-ponytail-book-robert-munsch-9780613376518","title":"Stephanie's Ponytail","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eONE MAN STANDING\u003cbr\u003eA Humanitarian, a Diplomat, A Contrarian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface by Bernard Kouchner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of a man born in Algeria in '51, who came to France in '62, qualified as a doctor in 1980, worked as a doctor in Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Morocco, then as Director of Operations, ministerial adviser for Health, Strategy and Technology, was struck down one ill-fated day then, the next day, was appointed as the first ever French Consul General in Kurdistan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom humanitarianism to diplomacy, on his feet, riding on a mule or in a wheelchair, from makeshift clinics to republican palaces, from Blida to the mountains of Iraq via Auvergne, Kurdistan, Somalia and Haiti, Fr d ric Tissot's fragmented life saturated with light and shadows feels more like an iPod on shuffle than a series of well plotted chapters. He has witnessed the rage of a dictator, the fall of a mullah and war crimes; he has tended to civilians and soldiers, believed in the rebuilding of a nation, uncovered generosity that kills just behind the sort that saves, experienced the absurdity of economic agreements and the omnipotence of geo-strategic concerns. By chance or out of necessity he has brought together all these decisive moments from history in one life, his, a dizzying geographical and humanitarian odyssey, a sort of brightly lit hotchpotch... that looks something like freedom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of a man born in Algeria in '51, who came to France in '62, qualified as a doctor in 1980, worked as a doctor in Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Morocco, then as Director of Operations, ministerial adviser for Health, Strategy and Technology, was struck down one ill-fated day then, the next day, was appointed as the first ever French Consul General in Kurdistan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom humanitarianism to diplomacy, on his feet, riding on a mule or in a wheelchair, from makeshift clinics to republican palaces, from Blida to the mountains of Iraq via Auvergne, Kurdistan, Somalia and Haiti, Fr d ric Tissot's fragmented life saturated with light and shadows feels more like an iPod on shuffle than a series of well plotted chapters. He has witnessed the rage of a dictator, the fall of a mullah and war crimes; he has tended to civilians and soldiers, believed in the rebuilding of a nation, uncovered generosity that kills just behind the sort that saves, experienced the absurdity of economic agreements and the omnipotence of geo-strategic concerns. By chance or out of necessity he has brought together all these decisive moments from history in one life, his, a dizzying geographical and humanitarian odyssey, a sort of brightly lit hotchpotch... that looks something like freedom.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Fr d ric Tissot\u003c\/strong\u003e, a public health specialist and a humanitarian doctor who has long worked for M decins Sans Fronti res (\u003cem\u003eDoctors Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e) and AMI, was the first French Consul General in Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan (2007-2012). He is currently Director of Studies at the Paris School of International Affairs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarine de Tilly\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1980. She is an author, journalist and literary critic for the news magazine \u003cem\u003eLe Point\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50940954575121,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50940957720849,"sku":"CIN061337651XG","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/061337651X.jpg?v=1786119570","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/stephanie-s-ponytail-book-robert-munsch-9780613376518","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}