Juana Dib ( Salta City, August 2, 1924 - Salta City, August 29, 2015) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher.

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The daughter of Syrian Greek Orthodox Christian parents from

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, in the

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, she was the third of eleven siblings. Trained as a teacher, Dib taught Spanish and administrative writing. Many of her students were immigrants and children of immigrants, whom she taught to speak and write in the

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. She was a member of the Caja de Previsión Social de la Provincia, the Centro Salteño de Investigaciones de la Cultura Árabe, and the Federación de Entidades Argentino Árabes filial Salta. Much of her work was translated by Zaki Konsol, Juan Yacer, and Michael Nooman, and published in Syrian and Lebanese newspapers and magazines. After her death, the Syrian-Lebanese Union of Salta described her as (an excellent poetess, writer and intellectual guide of the Arab cause).

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