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Sawsan Chebli

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Germany
  • Gender: Female
  • Born in: 1978
  • Age: 42
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German politician of Palestinian descent.

Shibli was born in Berlin, July 26, 1978 to a Palestinian immigrant family who was residing in Lebanon, and is considered the second youngest child in the family. The village of Burj Al-Barajneh in Lebanon, and at the beginning of the seventies of the twentieth century, her family, consisting of 15 members, emigrated from Lebanon and went to live in West Berlin, Germany.

After her graduation in 2004, Shalaby worked in various positions, the most important of which was her work in the Associate Research Center in the German Parliament, and her work as Director of the Johannes Young Office. In 2009 she participated in the Munich Security Conference.

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In March of 2010, she was appointed Head of the Department of Intercultural Dialogue at the Minister of the Interior of the Local Government in the German State of Berlin, and she was the first woman of foreign origins to hold this position, and she also worked as a minister of internal affairs with direct German affairs. Supervising the Islam Conference in Germany, especially with regard to aspects related to the integration policy of Muslims in Berlin.

On January 25, 2014, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier appointed her as the new spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry and deputy chief spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry, and last March Shalaby joined the Berlin State's Ministry of the Interior as head of the department of the dialogue of cultures and the chancellor of the Interior: To be more effective in the interests of immigrants and to improve their standard. "

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