Jakub Sławek

Jakub Kacper Sławek (born 1976 ) 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). He also studied at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Paris and Damascus. In 2004 he became a sworn translator of the Arabic language. 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).

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), On 16 November 2021, he was appointed ambassador to the . He took the post on 11 March 2022.

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.