Zaher el-Khatib ( Arabic: زاهر الخطيب) is a Lebanese Sunni politician.
He was born in 1940. [1] He obtained a Bachelor of Law degree from the Lebanese University. [1] As of 2018, he served as General Secretary of the Toilers League. [2]
El-Khatib was elected to parliament in the 1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election, after the death of his father Anwar el-Khatib (the incumbent Sunni parliamentarian from Chouf). [3] [4] [5] He was reelected to parliament in the 1971, 1992, 1996 and 2000 elections. [1] He was one of two Lebanese parliamentarians to vote against the 1983 May 17 Agreement. [6]
He served as Minister of State for Administrative Reform between December 24, 1990 and May 16, 1992, in the cabinet of Omar Karami. [7] [8]
As of 2018 el-Khatib served as chairman of the Lebanese Committee for Support to the Reunification of Korea. [2]