Zaher el-Khatib (; 1940 – 18 November 2025) was a Lebanese politician.
Background El-Khatib was born in 1940 to a Sunni family. He obtained a Bachelor of Law degree from the Lebanese University.زاهر الخطيب . Annahar As of 2018, he served as General Secretary of the Toilers League.Rodong. Kim Il Sung's Birth Anniversary to Be Marked in Lebanon
El-Khatib died on 18 November 2025, at the age of 85.https://www.annahar.com/lebanon/politics/257222/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A8
Political career El-Khatib was elected to parliament in the 1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election, after the death of his father Anwar el-Khatib (the incumbent Sunni parliamentarian from Chouf).Orient, Vol. 11–14. Deutsches Orient-Institut, 1970[?]. p. 23ARR: Arab Report and Record. Economic Features, Limited, 1971. p. 33Middle East Record, Vol. 5. Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah, Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Merkaz le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Reʼuven Shiloaḥ. Israel Oriental Society, Reuven Shiloah Research Center, 1977. p. 949 He was reelected to parliament in the 1971, 1992, 1996 and 2000 elections. He was one of two Lebanese parliamentarians to vote against the 1983 May 17 Agreement.
He served as Minister of State for Administrative Reform between 24 December 1990 and 16 May 1992, in the first cabinet of Omar Karami.Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform. Previous Ministers
As of 2018, el-Khatib served as chairman of the Lebanese Committee for Support to the Reunification of Korea.
See also Amal Movement Lebanese Civil War Mountain War (Lebanon)
References
External links Anwar El-Khatib (1910-1970)-A sorely missed jurist.