Ahmad 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 of Syria, appointed by Hafez al-Assad to replace the ousted president Nureddin al-Atassi.

Ahmad al-Khatib
أحمد الخطيب‎
Khatib in 1970
Acting President 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 the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office 13 November 1970 – 15 April 1975
Personal details
Born	1933 Daraa, First Syrian Republic
Died	1982 (aged 48–49) Damascus, Syria
Political party	Ba'ath Party
Relatives	Najwa al-Khatib

al-Khatib was a civilian member of the ruling Syrian Ba'ath Party and served as the country's acting president for only four months. When Assad subsequently became president in 1971, he then became the speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria.^[1]

Personal life and death

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 the Syrian Army who died in 2007.