Jakub Sławek Explained
Jakub Sławek |
Honorific-Suffix: | Ph.D. |
Order: | 7th |
Ambassador From: | Poland |
Country: | the United Arab Emirates |
Term Start: | 2022 |
Term End: | 2024 |
Successor: | Robert Rostek |
Nationality: | Polish |
Spouse: | Beata Sławek |
Children: | 3 |
Alma Mater: | Jagiellonian University |
Profession: | Diplomat, Arabist |
Parents: | Ewa, Tadeusz |
Jakub Kacper Sławek (born 1976[1]) is a Polish diplomat, from 2020 to 2022 chargé d'affaires and from 2022 to 2024 ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United Arab Emirates.
Life
Jakub Sławek graduated from Arabic studies at the Institute of Oriental Philology of the Jagiellonian University (2002).[2] He also studied at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Paris and Damascus.[3] In 2004 he became a sworn translator of the Arabic language.[4] In 2008, at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw, he obtained a PhD in literary studies on the basis of the dissertation Tribalism and Text in the Culture of Yemen (doctoral advisor – Marek Dziekan).[5]
In 2002 he started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He stayed at posts in Sanaa, Yemen (until 2006), Algiers, Algeria (from September 2007), and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the deputy head of the mission and the Consul of the Republic of Poland (from June 2012).[6] In December 2017, he became deputy ambassador to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On 1 October 2020, he took the position of chargé d'affaires ad interim there.[7] On 16 November 2021, he was appointed ambassador to the .[8] He took the post on 11 March 2022. He ended his mission in July 2024.
In 2024, he received from the President of the UAE Zayed al-Nahayan First-Class Medal of Independence.[9]
Personal life
Son of Ewa and Tadeusz Sławek. Married to Beata Sławek, father of three children.
Apart from Polish and Arabic, he speaks English, French, Italian and Russian.
Works
- Jakub Sławek: Jemen – świat wartości plemiennych. Kurowice: Wydawnictwo Ibidem, 2011. ISBN 978-83-62331-03-1.
- Jakub Sławek: Arabskie i polskie słownictwo dyplomatyczne i polityczne = Muʿǧam būlandī-ʿarabī li ǎl-muṣṭalaḥāt ad-diblūmāsiyya wa as-siyāsiyya. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2016. .
Translations
- Janusz Spyra: In the shadow of the Skoczów synagogue. Bielsko-Biała: Jewish Religious Community, 1998, .
Notes and References
- Web site: 2021-12-21 . Jakub Sławek Wszystkie książki, wywiady, artykuły . 2022-03-28 . Lubimyczytać.pl . pl . 2021-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211221210916/https://lubimyczytac.pl/autor/60453/jakub-slawek . bot: unknown .
- Web site: 2022-03-24 . Ambassador . 2022-03-28 . Poland in the UAE - Gov.pl website . https://web.archive.org/web/20220324183517/https://www.gov.pl/web/uae/ambassador-- . 24 March 2022 . dead.
- Web site: 2017-07-08 . Absolwenci, Uniwersytet Jagielloński . 2022-03-28 . Exporter.pl . pl . https://web.archive.org/web/20170708015510/http://www.exporter.pl/bazy/dyplomy/1250.php . 8 July 2017 . dead.
- Web site: Lista tłumaczy przysięgłych / Tłumacze przysięgli / Rejestry i ewidencje / Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej . 2022-03-28 . arch-bip.ms.gov.pl . pl.
- Web site: dr Jakub Sławek . 2022-03-28 . nauka-polska.pl . pl.
- Web site: Personel . https://web.archive.org/web/20150830142803/http://rijad.msz.gov.pl/pl/o_ambasadzie/personel/ . 2015-08-30 . 2022-03-28 . rijad.msz.gov.pl . pl.
- Web site: 2021-09-28 . Zapis przebiegu posiedzenia Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych /nr 62/ . 2022-03-28 . sejm.gov.pl . pl . https://web.archive.org/web/20211203001100/https://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm9.nsf/biuletyn.xsp?documentId=6C654B6CD59DF23FC125876C00431719 . 3 December 2021 . dead.
- Web site: 2021-11-16 . Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 16 listopada 2021 r. nr 110.28.2021 w sprawie mianowania Ambasadora Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej . 2022-03-28 . isap.sejm.gov.pl . pl.
- Web site: 2024-08-13 . UAE President confers First-Class Medal of Independence on Ambassador of Poland - Aletihad News Center . 2024-08-13 . web.archive.org.