Diplomatic stories - Dar Al Saqi

The Italian ambassador Pietro Corani describes diplomacy as a first-class seat in the theater of life. This 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 cases where he is the hero of the story, or the subject of the tale, and he finds himself this time not in the luxurious 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 acted out on the stage of life, and its characters are diplomats whom fate has willed to step out of the ranks of spectators onto that stage, to take the stage, and play the roles chosen for them: "... All 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 allow historical truths and dry events to distort their form."