Khaled Al Sabawi

{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Khaled Al Sabawi

| honorific_suffix =

| native_name =

| native_name_lang =

| image =

| alt = An image of Khaled Al Sabawi. He is a clean-shaven middle aged man, with slicked back black air and a smile. He is looking to the left of the camera.

| caption = Canadian-Palestinian Entrepreneur

| birth_name =

| birth_date = October 1, 1983

| birth_place =

| disappeared_date =

| disappeared_place =

| disappeared_status =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| death_cause =

| body_discovered =

| resting_place =

| resting_place_coordinates =

| monuments =

| nationality = Canadian

| other_names =

| citizenship =

| education = University of Waterloo

| alma_mater =

| occupation =

| years_active =

| employer = Union Construction and Investment,{{Cite web|url=https://uci.ps/en|title=Union Construction and Investment|website=uci.ps}} MENA Geothermal,{{Cite web|url=http://www.menageothermal.com/|title=MENA Geothermal - Geothermal Cooling and Heating Systems|website=www.menageothermal.com}} Open Screenplay{{Cite web|url=https://www.openscreenplay.com/|title=Write Screenplays. Get Paid. Get Produced.|website=www.openscreenplay.com}}

| organization =

| known_for =

| notable_works = TABO,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tabo.ps/|title=TABO|website=www.tabo.ps}} Etihad Villas[http://www.etihadvillas.ps/ Etihad Villas Website]

| style =

| height =

| television =

| title =

| term =

| predecessor =

| successor =

| party =

| movement =

| opponents =

| boards = Union Construction and Investment, Ahlia Insurance{{Cite web|url=http://www.ahlia.ps/Ahlia|title=Insurance}}| criminal_charge =

| criminal_penalty =

| criminal_status =

| spouse = Daliah Vakili

| partner =

| children = Darius Noah Sabawi

| parents = Dr. Mohammad Al Sabawi

| relatives =

| callsign =

| awards = - Young Alumni Achievement Medal, University of Waterloo

- Young Entrepreneur Award for 2013, Takreem Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm388CSJqj8|title=Khaled Al Sabawi Receives Takreem Award for Young Entrepreneur|website=YouTube |date=4 December 2013 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.takreem.net/candidates/index.php?sect=2&i=42&year=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530144607/http://www.takreem.net/candidates/index.php?sect=2&i=42&year=2013|url-status=dead|title=2013 Takreem Awards for Young Entrepreneur|archive-date=May 30, 2014}}

- Ranked 195th Most Influential Arab, Arabian Business Magazine (Top 500), 2012.

- Named "Accomplished Palestinian", Institute for Middle East Understanding, 2011.

- Energy Globe Award Recipient, 2011.

- World Top Energy Entrepreneur, Global Post, 2010.

- Energy Globe Award Recipient, 2009.

| signature =

| signature_alt =

| signature_size =

| module =

| module2 =

| module3 =

| module4 =

| module5 =

| module6 =

| website = {{Facebook|khaled.sabawi}}

| footnotes =

}}

Khaled Al Sabawi (born October 1, 1983) is a Canadian serial-entrepreneur, engineer, impact investor, screenwriter, and executive producer. He is the Founder & CEO of Open Screenplay, Inc; CEO & Vice Chairman of Union Construction (UCI), Co-Founder of TABO Palestine; and Founder & President of MENA Geothermal. The son of Palestinian refugees from Gaza, he received his degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2006 and later became the first certified Geothermal Engineer in the Arab Middle EastHarvard Arab Alumni, Harvard Arab Weekend November 10–13, Speakers, {{cite web |url=http://www.harvardarabalumni.org/MENAweekend/speaker.php |title=Harvard Mena |access-date=2012-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012231449/http://www.harvardarabalumni.org/MENAweekend/speaker.php |archive-date=2012-10-12 }} Khaled was named "One of the World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs" by Global Post in 2010,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2010-07-14/energy-entrepreneurs-green-power-meets-bottom-line|title=The Energy Entrepreneurs: Green power meets the bottom line|website=The World from PRX|date=2 August 2016 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.greenprophet.com/2010/07/khaled-alsabawi-ramallah-entrepreneur/|title=Global Post Names Ramallah's Khaled Al Sabawi One Of World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs|first=Tafline|last=Laylin|date=July 15, 2010}} and was ranked the 195th Most Influential Arab by Arabian Business Magazines in their Top 500 Most Influential Arabs ranking for 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://power500.arabianbusiness.com/power-500-2012/profile/15427/ |title=Arabian Business | Power 500 | Khaled Sabawi - Power 500 2012 | Profile |access-date=2012-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224235522/http://power500.arabianbusiness.com/power-500-2012/profile/15427 |archive-date=2012-12-24 |url-status=dead }} In 2013, Khaled received the Takreem Award for Young Entrepreneur{{Cite web|url=http://www.takreem.net/candidates/index.php?sect=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531011143/http://www.takreem.net/candidates/index.php?sect=2|url-status=dead|title=Takreem website | Laureates of / 2013|archive-date=May 31, 2014}} at their highly publicized awards ceremony in Paris, France. In October 2014, Khaled was featured on the cover of Forbes Middle East with the caption beside his picture reading "Industry of the Impossible" in Arabic along with the a feature article titled "The Good Deed" in English. On November 25, 2014 Khaled received the Young Alumni Achievement Medal from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering in Canada,{{Cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/young-alumni-achievement-medal-past-recipients|title=Past recipients of the Young Alumni Achievement Medal|date=July 26, 2012|website=Engineering}} one of the most renowned faculties of engineering in the world.{{Cite web |url=http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/culture/8729-sabawi-recieves-prestigious-young-alumni-achievement-medal-in-renewable-energy-and-real-estate-development |title=Sabawi {{as written|Rec|ieves [sic]}} Prestigious Young Alumni Achievement Medal in Renewable Energy and Real Estate Development |access-date=2014-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224140636/http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/culture/8729-sabawi-recieves-prestigious-young-alumni-achievement-medal-in-renewable-energy-and-real-estate-development |archive-date=2014-12-24 |url-status=dead }} In 2015 Khaled was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.{{Cite web|url=https://www.younggloballeaders.org/|title=The Forum of Young Global Leaders|website=The Forum of Young Global Leaders}}

As part of MENA Geothermal, a green energy business, Khaled installed the first geothermal systems in Palestine in 2007. MENA Geothermal was a two-time winner of the Energy Globe Award in 2008 and 2011{{Cite web|url=https://www.energyglobe.info/en/energy-globe-award/press-room/press-photos/recent-photos/national-winner-prague-09/continent-asia/|title=Energy Globe Award / Continent Asia|website=www.energyglobe.info}} and has installed the largest geothermal system in the Middle East at the American University of Madaba in Jordan.

While at UCI, one of the largest impact investment real-estate development companies in Palestine, Khaled Co-Founded TABO, Arabic for "title deed," a development project which revolutionized the real-estate market in the West Bank by offering affordable, registered plots of residential land in the West Bank. It is a response to the increasing cost of land purchase in Palestine and also protects land against Israeli annexation through title deed registration.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-land-idUSTRE74A57320110511|title=Venture lets Palestinians buy piece of West Bank|newspaper=Reuters |date=May 11, 2011|via=www.reuters.com}} Khaled grew UCI to lead its national real-estate market for years.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

On January 15, 2019, Khaled launched Open Screenplay, an online platform and marketplace with a patented technology that services businesses looking for original story concepts or screenplays with a community of storytellers looking to get discovered, learn, collaborate, get paid and produced. Open Screenplay has revolutionized the way businesses create stories for marketing, allowing businesses such as RBC Royal Bank, Canada’s largest bank, to generate hundreds of authentic stories from a diverse community of writers on marketing topics of their choice - at a fraction of the cost compared to using a traditional advertising agency.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

In 2010, Khaled gave a speech at the TEDxRamallah Conference, titled "Keeping Palestine Cool: A Different Kind of Underground Movement" went viral on YouTube influencing over 100,000 viewers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fD2bMavK8Y|title=TEDxRamallah - Khaled Al Sabawi - Keeping Palestine Cool: A Different Kind of Underground Movement|website=YouTube |date=22 May 2011 }}{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} In 2018, Khaled gave a second TEDx talk title TABO - Every Palestinian Needs a Title. {{citation needed|date=November 2023}}