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Khater

Surname

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2023
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Khater is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Akram Fouad Khater, professor of history at North Carolina State University

Lahad Khater (1881–1975), Lebanese journalist and writer

Lama Khater, Palestinian journalist and writer

Mohammad Khater, Jordanian professional footballer

Mohammed bin Khater Al Khater, Qatari diplomat, Qatar's ambassador to India

Salih Khater, British man convicted of murder in the 2018 Westminster car attack

Subait Khater, retired Emirati footballer

Suleiman Khater (1961–1986), Egyptian soldier who committed the Ras Burqa massacre in 1985

Toufic Abou Khater (1934–2020), Monaco-based Palestinian/Lebanese billionaire businessman

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Khater” as surname. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Khater and Surname.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1881, 1975, 2018, 1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Khater and Surname providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Khater”, the useful work is to connect “surname” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2023. The first chronological checks are 1881, 1975, 2018 and 1961.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Khater” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.