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Ahmad al-Khatib | |
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أحمد الخطيب | |
 Khatib in 1970 | |
| ActingPresident of Syria | |
| In office 18 November 1970 – 12 March 1971 | |
| Prime Minister | Vacant Hafez al-Assad |
| Vice President | Vacant Mahmoud al-Ayyubi |
| Preceded by | Nureddin al-Atassi |
| Succeeded by | Hafez al-Assad |
| Speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria | |
| In office 22 February 1971 – 26 December 1971 | |
| Preceded by | Mansur al-Atrash(was parliament chairman in 1966) |
| Succeeded by | Fahmi al-Yusufi |
| Member of theRegional Command of theSyrian Regional Branch | |
| In office 13 November 1970 – 15 April 1975 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1933 |
| Died | 1982 (aged 48–49) |
| Political party | Ba'ath Party |
| Relatives | Najwa al-Khatib |
Ahmad al-Hasan al-Khatib (Arabic:أحمد الحسن الخطيب; 1933–1982) was a Syrian politician who served as the sole ceremonial head of state ofSyria, appointed byHafez al-Assad to replace the ousted presidentNureddin al-Atassi.
al-Khatib was a civilian member of the rulingSyrian Ba'ath Party and served as the country's actingpresident for only four months. When Assad subsequently became president in 1971, he then became the speaker of thePeople's Assembly of Syria.[1]
He died in Damascus, Syria in 1982. He had many siblings, one of them was Najwa al-Khatib, the wife of Abdulmajid Mansour, a prominent doctor in theSyrian Army who died in 2007.
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