Mahmoud Labadi (1940–2014) was a Palestinian journalist, writer and politician who was a long-term spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
He also acted as the liaison of the PLO leader Yasser Arafat with the American embassy in Beirut.
[2] Labadi was the editor-in-chief of the PLO publication Palestine Bulletin which was published in English and in French and was distributed in Beirut and in Tunis.
[2] Labadi was named as the director general of the PNA's Ministry of Economy and Trade in 1995, and his tenure ended in 1997.
[1] He was the director of the Aid Coordination and NGO Department at the PNA's Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction between 1997 and 1999.