Muhammad Nabil Al Khatib
{{Short description|Syrian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
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| name = Muhammad Nabil Al Khatib
| native_name = {{Script/Arabic|محمد نبيل الخطيب}}
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| office = Minister of Justice
| president = {{ubl|Hafez al-Assad |Bashar al-Assad}}
| primeminister = Muhammad Mustafa Mero
| predecessor = Abdullah Tolba
| successor = Nizar Al Assi
| term_start = 13 March 2000
| term_end = 18 September 2003
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| party = Ba'ath Party
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Muhammad Nabil Al Khatib ({{langx|ar|محمد نبيل الخطيب}}) is a Syrian politician and member of the Ba'ath Party. He served as justice minister from 2000 to 2003.
Career
Khatib became a member of the central committee of the Baath Party in 2000. He was first appointed justice minister by President Hafez al-Assad to the cabinet headed by Muhammad Mustafa Mero in March 2000.{{cite news|title=New government formed in Syria
|url=http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000314/2000031401.html|access-date=9 February 2013|newspaper=Arabic News|date=14 March 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907144902/http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000314/2000031401.html|archive-date=7 September 2008|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|editor=Bruce Maddy-Weitzman|title=Middle East Contemporary Survey 2000|volume=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r01_GDIeTuUC&pg=PA558|year=2002
|publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center|isbn=978-965-224-054-5|page=557|location=Tel Aviv}} He continued to serve as justice minister after the first cabinet reshuffle by Bashar al-Assad when he became the president of Syria.{{cite journal|author=Gary C. Gambill|title=Bashar Reshuffles Syrian Government|journal=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin|url=http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0003_s3.htm|date=March 2000|volume=2|issue=3}} In a 2001 reshuffle, he retained his post.{{cite news|title=New Syrian Government Formed; Veteran Guards Retain Defence and Foreign Portfolios|url=http://www.albawaba.com/news/new-syrian-government-formed-veteran-guards-retain-defence-and-foreign-portfolios|access-date=9 February 2013|work=Albawaba|date=14 December 2001}} His term lasted until 2003.{{cite magazine|author=Sami Moubayed|title=Syria: much ado, but nothing happened|magazine=Al Ahram Weekly|date=25–31 December 2003|volume=670|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/670/re6.htm
|accessdate=9 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913002009/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/670/re6.htm|archive-date=13 September 2009|url-status=dead}} Then Khatib was appointed head of the Syrian Commission in 2006, which was in charge of investigating the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.{{cite magazine|author=Sami Moubayed|title=Upping the ante|magazine=Al Ahram Weekly|date=10–18 January 2006|volume=777
|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/re4.htm|access-date=9 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326033000/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/re4.htm|archive-date=26 March 2013|url-status=dead}} In April 2009, President Bashar Assad named Khatib as chairman of the central commission of inspection.{{cite news|title=Syrian president reshuffles cabinet with five new ministers
|url=http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6644083.html|access-date=25 February 2013|newspaper=People's Daily|date=24 April 2009}}{{cite news|title=Syrian president reshuffles cabinet
|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/15/c_13829531.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208221911/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-04/15/c_13829531.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 February 2015|access-date=24 February 2013|work=Xinhua |date=15 April 2011}}
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Category:Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians