Khuloud Khalil Daibes (), also
transliterated
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as Khouloud D'eibes, is a
Palestinian
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*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
architect
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and former politician and diplomat. She was born on 16 April 1965 in
Jerusalem
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.
Career
Khuloud Daibes holds a PhD in
Architecture
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from
University of Hannover
Leibniz University Hannover (), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational School, the university has undergone six periods of renaming, its ...
in
Germany
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. She was the Director of the Center for Preserving Cultural Heritage in
Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem, and the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. It had a population of people, as of . The city's economy is strongly linked to Tourism in the State of Palesti ...
. She was also a lecturer in the Tourism Masters Program at
Bethlehem University
Bethlehem University () is a Catholic university located in the city of Bethlehem, in the West Bank, Palestine.
History
Established shortly before the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the university traces its roots to 1893, when the ...
. For 15 years, she was involved with many Palestinian and international organizations dealing with cultural heritage and
tourism in the Palestinian Territories
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.
Positions and rules
She served as the Tourism Minister in the Palestinian National Unity Government of March 2007
The Second Haniyeh Government, also known as the Palestinian National Unity Government of March 2007 (), was a Palestinian Authority unity government headed by Ismail Haniyeh, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority that was fo ...
and successive Palestinian Authority emergency governments until 2012, and from 2007 to 2009 also as Minister of Women's Affairs.[''The PA Ministerial Cabinet List—The Emergency Government June 2007 - July 2007'' (12th government)]
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In July 2013, Daibes became the representative of the Palestinian mission in Germany.[
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References
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1965 births
Ambassadors of Palestine to Germany
Living people
Government ministers of the Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian architects
Women government ministers of the Palestinian National Authority
Leibniz University Hannover alumni
Academic staff of Bethlehem University
Palestinian women diplomats
21st-century Palestinian diplomats
People from Zababdeh
Palestinian women ambassadors
Palestinian expatriates in Germany