Olivier Weber is an award-winning French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa and Middle-East. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and has been ambassador of France at large from 2008 to 2013. Among his last novels: The Barbary Corsair, a fiction on Cervantès prisoner of the pirats, and The Enlightment of the world.