Mohamed Aboul-Ghar

محمد أبو الغار

Party leader In opposition Unverified

Founder and former chair of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. Gynecologist by training; founding figure of the 2011 revolutionary intellectual scene.

Country: Egypt
Party: Egyptian Social Democratic Party
Role: Party leader

Inherited position

Until Mohamed Aboul-Ghar is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Egypt (via Egyptian Social Democratic Party)

Egyptian Social Democratic Party's spider profile

Egyptian Social Democratic Party

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Interview English 2016-04-08

Mohamed Aboul-Ghar (founder/first president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party) — interview (per Atlantic Council, ~2016): the ESDP's constructive-critical middle ground — "We are neither an opposition party, nor a pro-government party… When the president does something good, we support him, and when he adopts what [we] believe are wrong decisions, we speak out."

We are neither an opposition party, nor a pro-government party. When the president does something good, we support him, and when he adopts what believe are wrong decisions, we speak out against those decisions.

34 words original source ↗

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Mohamed Aboul-Ghar [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/aboul-ghar

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohamed Aboul-Ghar." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/aboul-ghar.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-aboul-ghar,
  title     = {{Mohamed Aboul-Ghar}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/aboul-ghar},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.