Abdelkrim Al Khatib (2 March 1921 – 28 September 2008) was a Moroccan surgeon, politician and activist.
He co-founded the National Popular Movement which would later split and was eventually re-branded as the Justice and Development Party.
His father, Omar Al Khatib, was an administrative interpreter of Algerian origin and his mother Meriem El Guebbas was Moroccan.
[3] El Khatib is the maternal uncle of Moroccan General Housni Benslimane whose sister is the mother of Ismail Alaoui the ex-president of the Party of Progress and Socialism.
[5] El Khatib is also the maternal uncle of Saad Hassar, former secretary of state in the Moroccan Interior Ministry[6]