Abdelkrim Al Khatib (2 March 1921 – 28 September 2008) was a Moroccan surgeon, politician and activist. He co-founded the

National Popular Movement The National Popular Movement (french: Mouvement National Populaire) was a political party in Morocco. History and profile The party was founded in 1991, as a split of the Popular Movement, under veteran Berber politician and former defense min ...

which would later split and was eventually re-branded as the

Justice and Development Party Justice and Development Party may refer to several political parties, the best-known ones being: * Justice and Development Party (Morocco) * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) Justice and Development Party may also refer to: * Justice and Dev ...

. He became the first leader of Morocco's House of Representatives.

Biography

Al Khatib was born on 2 March 1921 in El Jadida. His father, Omar Al Khatib, was an administrative interpreter of Algerian origin and his mother Meriem El Guebbas was Moroccan. He became the first surgeon in Morocco and was involved when the Popular Movement was started. He was a campaigner for independence and he became the first leader of Morocco's House of Representatives. He was also a Government minister several times. After the 1965 period of emergency when the Moroccan King took on the temporary management of Morocco, he founded the

which emerged from the '' Popular Democratic Constitutional Movement'' in 1988. These were Islamic parties that support the monarchy. It is said that this new party was based on the Turkish party of the same name. But that's not true because the party in Turkey was founded in 2001. But it said that the Turkish Islamic politician Necmettin Erbakan was a big actor by founding the party.Political Islam in Morocco: The Case of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD)
concernedafricascholars.org, accessed 20 November 2013 The party was successful in the 2002 election taking 42 out of the 325 seats. Al Khatib died in

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

in 2008.Abdelkrim al-Khatib
, berkleycenter.georgetown.ed, retrieved 20 November 2013

Family

El Khatib is the maternal uncle of Moroccan General

Housni Benslimane General Housni Benslimane ( ar, حسني بن سليمان ; born 14 December 1935, El Jadida) is a senior Moroccan Gendarmerie officer who has served since 1972 as the Commander-in-Chief of this unit. He also presides over the Moroccan Olympic C ...

whose sister is the mother of

Ismail Alaoui Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

the ex-president of the Party of Progress and Socialism. El Khatib is also the maternal uncle of

Saad Hassar Saad Hassar ( ar, سعد حصار – born 21 February 1953, Salé) is a Moroccan politician. Between 2007 and 2012, he was Secretary of State for the Interior in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi, succeeding Fouad Ali El Himma. Saad Hassar st ...

, former secretary of state in the Moroccan Interior Ministry

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