Although his mother tongue is Arabic, Stetie chooses to write in French due to the sentiment that the Arabic language is outdated. Salah Stetie was born on 28 December 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon to a bourgeois Sunni family. His father, Mahmoud Stetie, was a teacher and Arabic poet who provided his son with a solid foundation in Arabic and Muslim culture.
He then studied Orientalism at the Sorbonne in 1951 under a scholarship.
He has also served in various diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Paris became one of two “mental poles” for Stetie. This is to say, he came to think of himself just as much a Francophone and Parisian as he did an Arab and Lebanese.
In 1955 he returned to Lebanon where taught at the Lebanese Academy of Beaux-Arts, Graduate School of Arts of Beirut, and the University of Beirut, where he taught until 1961 when his diplomatic career began.
In the 1960s, he served as a Lebanese Cultural Diplomat in Paris and Occidental Europe, and also as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s delegate for Lebanon. In 1982 he began a tenure as a Lebanese diplomat in the Netherlands, a position he held until 1984 when he was appointed as a diplomat in Morocco.
In 1987 he was appointed Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs in his home country, before returning to his diplomatic position in the Netherlands in 1991. In 1992, he retired to Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre.
1964: “Louisiana nymphe des rats”
1972: “Louisiana Mort Abeille”
1973: “L"eau Froid Gardée”
1973: “Fragments: Poèmes”
1978: “André Piyere de Mandiargues”
1979: “Obscure Lampe De Cela”
1980: “Louisiana Unième Nuit”
1980: “Ur En Poèsie”
1980: “Inversion de L"arbe et du Silence”
1983: “L"Etre Poupée”
1983: “Colombe Doctorate"Aquiline”
1984: “Nuage Avec des Voix”
1988: "Incises"
1991: "Le Voyage Doctorate"Alep"
1991: "Les sept Dormants au péril de la poésie"
1992: " L"épée des larmes"
1996: "Archer Aveugle"
1996: "Lecture Doctorate"Une Femme".
