Taysir Khalid ( ar, تيسير خالد), also spelled as ''Tayseer Khaled'', is a member and
politburo
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Names
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, member of the
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP; ar, الجبهة الديموقراطية لتحرير فلسطين, ''al-Jabha al-Dīmūqrāṭiyya li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn'') is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organi ...
(DFLP), and a former member of the
. He resigned in protest against the
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords are a pair of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993; in 1993. He was the party's candidate for the
Palestinian presidential election in 2005. He gained 3.4% of the vote.
Khalid was born on 19 January 1941 in
Qaryut
Qaryout ( ar, قريوت) is a Palestinian people, Palestinian village of nearly 2,500 in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Nablus.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Qaryut had ...
,
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
, near
Qabalan
Qabalan ( ar, قبلان) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 7,130 inhabitants in 2 ...
and
as-Sawiya
As-Sawiya ( ar, الساويه) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town ...
. His father Ahmad was a peasant who had four sons, Abbas, Jameel, Tareq and Taysir. He also had three sisters, Yosra, Myassar, and Nawal, who now lives in
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
/
Zarqa
Zarqa ( ar, الزرقاء) is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue (city)". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the most populous city in Jordan after Amman.
Geography
Zarqa is located in t ...
,
Jordan
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, two sons, Fabian and Murad and two daughters, Nadia and Nadeen.
References
1941 births
Living people
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine politicians
People from Qaryut
Members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization
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