Mauritania Activist
Biram Dah Abeid
بيرام داه عبيدMauritanian anti-slavery activist and three-time presidential candidate (2014, 2019, 2024). Founder of IRA-Mauritania, which campaigns against the de facto continuation of caste-based slavery in the country. Has served two prison sentences for his activism — once for burning religious texts he argued were used to justify slavery, once for an arrest weeks before the 2019 election. Finished second in 2024 with 22% of the vote.
- Country
- Mauritania
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Activist
Position
1 source document on file for Biram Dah Abeid (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Interview Other 2017-12-28 Biram Dah Abeid — 'La loi fondamentale sacralise un code négrier' (Le Point Afrique interview, 28 December 2017)
En 2017 et en 2018, qui commence, environ 20 % des Noirs mauritaniens sont possédés par des citoyens mauritaniens arabo-berbères, le plus légalement du monde. La version locale de la charia islamique légalise, légitime…
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). Biram Dah Abeid [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/biram-dah-abeid-mr
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Biram Dah Abeid." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/biram-dah-abeid-mr.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-biram-dah-abeid-mr,
title = {{Biram Dah Abeid}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/biram-dah-abeid-mr},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
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 June 21, 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 = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.