Khaled Mashaal
| Khaled Mashal خالد مشعل |
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Khaled Mashal, 20 January 2009
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| Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau | |
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In office 1996 – 15 February 2017 |
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| Deputy | Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook |
| Succeeded by | Yahya Sinwar |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
28 May 1956 Silwad, Jordanian West Bank |
| Nationality | Jordanian, Palestinian |
| Political party | Hamas |
| Residence |
Doha, Qatar (2012-present) Damascus, Syria (2001-2012) |
| Alma mater |
Kuwait University Stenden University |
| Religion | Islam |
Khaled Mashal (Arabic: خالد مشعل Khālid Mashʿal, Levantine Arabic: [xaːled meʃʕal], born 28 May 1956) is a Palestinian political leader and the leader of the Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas since the Israeli assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004.
After the founding of Hamas in 1987, Mashal came to lead the Kuwaiti branch of the organization. He moved from Kuwait to Jordan in 1991. Since the expulsion of the Hamas leadership from Jordan in August 1999, Mashal lived in Qatar before moving to the Syrian capital of Damascus in 2001. He returned to Qatar in 2012 as a result of the Syrian civil war.
Mashal was born in 1956 in Silwad in the West Bank during the Jordanian occupation. He attended Silwad Elementary School until the 1967 Six-Day War. His father moved the family to Kuwait afterwards for financial reasons. Mashal joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1971. He holds a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Kuwait University.
While at Kuwait University, Mashal headed the Islamic Justice (qa’imat al-haq al-islamiyya) list in the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) elections in 1977. The basis for the Islamic Justice list was the Palestinian Islamic movement, as part of the Muslim Brotherhood. After the cancellation of the GUPS elections, Mashal established the Islamic League for Palestinian Students (al-rabita al-islamiyya li tolaab filastin) in 1980.
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