Fadi El Khatib

Fadi El Khatib earns my admiration before the stats even arrive. Nicknamed the Lebanese Tiger, this 198 cm forward carried Lebanese basketball on his back and took his game abroad to Syria, Ukraine, and China, which takes real resolve. Middle Eastern sport rarely reaches Western coverage, so I suspect his true significance was cultural as much as athletic: the kind of player who filled arenas simply because he was there. Rising from Sagesse SC to become a national symbol is a heavyweight legacy. I am always drawn to athletes who shoulder a country's pride, and he clearly did exactly that.

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Name (English)

Fadi El Khatib

Name (Japanese)

ファディ・エル・ハティブ

Reading

ふぁでぃ・える・はてぃぶ

Born

January 1, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Shheem, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Height

198 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fadielkhatib15/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadi%20El%20Khatib
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%96
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2737183

Tags

• Mount Lebanon Governorate
• basketball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.