Taysir Khalid (Arabic: تيسير خالد), also spelled as Tayseer Khaled, is a member and politburo, member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
[1] He was the party's candidate for the Palestinian presidential election in 2005.
[2] Khalid was born on 19 January 1941 in Qaryut, Mandatory Palestine, near Qabalan and as-Sawiya.
His father Ahmad was a peasant who had four sons, Abbas, Jameel, Tareq and Taysir.
He also had three sisters, Yosra, Myassar, and Nawal, who now lives in Amman/Zarqa, Jordan, two sons, Fabian and Murad and two daughters, Nadia and Nadeen, two grandsons Omar and Rami.