Diplomatic stories by Najda Fathi Safwa

The Italian ambassador Pietro Corani describes diplomacy as a first-class seat in the theater of life. It is an honest description when the diplomat is an observer watching events unfold and witnessing history being made. But in the life of a diplomat, there are times when he is the hero of the story or the subject of the tale, and he finds himself this time not in the plush first-class seat, but in the heart of the theater, under the spotlight, and all eyes are on him. This book contains a collection of stories performed on the stage of life, and its characters are diplomats whom fate has allowed to step out of the ranks of spectators onto that stage, to take the stage, and to play the roles chosen for them: "... All of these are true stories, with no addition of imagination, nor manipulation of facts. They happened to diplomats whose names I have mentioned, and I shaped them in a style that did not allow the rules of storytelling to distort any of the facts, nor did I let historical truths and dry events distort their narrative form…".