Ahmad Hasan al-Khatib ( ar, أحمد حسن الخطيب; 1933–1982) was a Syrian politician. He was a ceremonial head of state of
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, appointed by
Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad ', , (, 6 October 1930 – 10 June 2000) was a Syrian statesman and military officer who served as President of Syria from taking power in 1971 until his death in 2000. He was also Prime Minister of Syria from 1970 to 1 ...
to replace the ousted president
Nureddin al-Atassi. Ahmad al-Khatib was a civilian member of the ruling
Ba'ath party
The Arab Socialist Baʿath Party ( ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي ' ) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bītār, and associates of Zaki al-ʾArsūzī. The party espoused B ...
and served as the country's acting president for only four months. Assad subsequently became president in 1971. He then became the speaker of the Syrian parliament. He died in Damascus, Syria in 1982. He had many siblings, one of them was Najwa al-Khatib, the wife of Abdulmajid Mansour, a very important doctor in the Syrian army who died in 2007.
1933 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Syrian politicians
Presidents of Syria
Speakers of the People's Assembly of Syria
Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
Ba'athist rulers
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