Iyad El-Baghdadi

إياد البغدادي

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Palestinian-Emirati rights activist and writer; expelled from the UAE in 2014 and now based in Norway under government protection following intelligence warnings about an assassination plot. Co-founder of the Kawaakibi Foundation focused on Arab freedoms.

Country: United Arab Emirates
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Iyad El-Baghdadi (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 →

Interview English 2020-08-07

Iyad El-Baghdadi (Palestinian-Norwegian pro-democracy activist; founder, Kawaakibi Foundation) — interview with The New Arab, Aug 2020: the Arab Spring digital-activist's "counter-revolution" thesis — "even before the coup in Egypt in 2013, it was clear that my country's [the UAE's] government was leading the counter revolution" — and Twitter as "an alternative parliament for the Arabs" wearing away "the rusty narratives of the region's dictators."

Even before the coup in Egypt in 2013, it was clear that my country's government was leading the counter revolution. Twitter became an alternative parliament for the Arabs, a hangout for native Arabic speakers and…

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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). Iyad El-Baghdadi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/iyad-el-baghdadi

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Iyad El-Baghdadi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/iyad-el-baghdadi.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-iyad-el-baghdadi,
  title     = {{Iyad El-Baghdadi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/iyad-el-baghdadi},
  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.