Ahmed Shafiq Al Khatib

Ahmad Shafik Al-Khatib (Arabic: أحمد شفيق الخطيب) (1926–2015) was a Palestinian-Lebanese lexicographer.

Life Khatib was born in Al-Qubeiba village in Palestine in 1926. His father is Imam Shafeeq Al-Khatib and his mother is Amina Al-Huraidi. He married Shereen Irani, with whom he had three sons. He studied his secondary school in Arabic. He studied in Friends school in Ramallah in English. Ahmad lived in Lebanon since 1945. When the Nakba occurred, he had already finished his third year in the science department. He had to drop out and work as a teacher of science in Makassed Islamic college in Sidon. He took over the administration of the college internal department from 1949 to 1951. In 1956, he got his bachelor's degree in science from the American University of Beirut. He also got his master's degree in literature from the same university in 1958.

In 1964, he worked as a scientific advisor in the publishing department In the Lebanon library. Later, he became the head of the dictionaries section. He also worked as a secretary of the Lions Club from its foundation in 1960 until the mid-seventies and was a member of the Lebanese Red Cross. Moreover, he worked as a secretary, vice-president, and president of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, and a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Jordan.

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