Dima Khatib

Dima Khatib
Photo: Issa Al Kindy
Born	(1971-07-14) July 14, 1971 (age 45) Syria
Residence	Doha, Qatar

Dima Khatib (Arabic: ديمة الخطيب‎‎) is a journalist, poet and translator. She is the Managing Director of AJ+, an award-winning digital news service in English, Arabic and Spanish launched by Al Jazeera Media Network in San Francisco, USA. She is currently the only female executive director within the Al Jazeera group and one of few female leaders in the Arab media sphere.

Dima was born in Damascus to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father. Khatib speaks eight languages (Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, German). She joined Al Jazeera back in 1997 as a junior intern in broadcast journalism to become a producer, correspondent in China and then Latin America Bureau Chief before making a total shift to internet journalism in recent years.

Dima has been classified among the most influential Arabs on Social Media [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] She received attention during Arab revolutions for providing frequent updates and commentary about recent events via her Twitter account. Today she tackles all kinds of issues on her social feeds, including social media, media, motherhood, poetry, Palestine and others.