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Salah Stétié
Salah Stétié () is a Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language. He has also served in various diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Although his mother tongue is Arabic, Stetie chooses to write in French due to the sentiment that the Arabic language is outdated.
Biography.
Salah Stetie was born on 28 September 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon to a bourgeois Sunni family. His father, Mahmoud Stetie, was a teacher and Arabic poet who provided his son
July 2002.
Notable poet-diplomats.
- Abe no Nakamaro
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Thomas Wyatt
- Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
- Constantijn Huygens
- Matthew Prior
- Joel Barlow
- Valentin Iremonger
- Nizar Qabbani
- Ahmed Fouad Shennib
- Abioseh Davidson Nicol
- Eduardo Cote Lamus
- Shathel Taqa
- Salah Stétié
- David Rubadiri
- Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
- John Weston
- Li Zhaoxing
- Homero Aridjis
- Reda Mansour
- Aleksander Griboyedov