Sabah Kabbani

Sabah Kabbani (1928-2015) was born in Damascus and educated in Syria and France. He had a career in public service as director of Syrian Television and as a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Ambassador to the United States in 1974.Peter Clark is a writer, translator and consultant who was director of the British Council in Syria (1992-97). He has written books on Marmaduke Pickthall, Wilfred Thesiger and Charles Dickens, and has translated fiction and non...See more

Sabah Kabbani (1928-2015) was born in Damascus and educated in Syria and France. He had a career in public service as director of Syrian Television and as a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Ambassador to the United States in 1974.Peter Clark is a writer, translator and consultant who was director of the British Council in Syria (1992-97). He has written books on Marmaduke Pickthall, Wilfred Thesiger and Charles Dickens, and has translated fiction and non-fiction from Arabic. He is the author of Damascus Diaries: Life under the Assads (2015). See less