-    Born in 1854 in Nablus, Palestine
-    A Palestinian Politician and a member of the Palestinian People’s Party
-    Vice President for Development and Communications and lecturer of Cultural Studies and Contemporary Arab Studies at Birzeit University
-    Served as director of the Palestinian Authority Government Media Center (2009-2012)
-    Former Minister of Labor in 2002 and Minister of Planning (2005-2006)
-    Founded and directed the Jerusalem Media and Communication center
-    He was a member of the Palestinian delegation for the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference in 1991 and the subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington from 1991-93
-    Khatib holds a PhD in Middle East politics from the University of Durham, and is author of Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process: Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiation Team.
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