Sami Droubi

Sami Droubi was a Syrian politician, career diplomat, writer, translator, university professor, and philosopher. He worked as a Syrian diplomat throughout the 1960s, serving in succession as the Syrian ambassador to Brazil, Morocco, Yugoslavia, and Egypt and the Arab League, Spain and the Holy See. He briefly served as Education Minister in 1963. He also translated numerous literary works into Arabic. A veteran member of the Ba'ath Party, Droubi was an advocate of socialism and pan-Arab unity. He was known to be a staunch supporter of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and is regarded as "one of the most acclaimed philosophers of Arab nationalism" in Syria, according to historian Sami Moubayed. He died of a heart attack in 1976 at the age of 55.