Saudi Arabia Activist
Jamal Khashoggi
جمال خاشقجيSaudi journalist and Washington Post columnist; one-time confidant of the Saudi royal family who became a vocal critic of MBS. Killed by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2018-10-02 — an assassination that triggered global outrage and continues to shape Saudi-Western relations.
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Activist
- Status
- Historical figure
Position
1 source document on file for Jamal Khashoggi (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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English 2018-10-17 Jamal Khashoggi — Washington Post columns 2017-2018 mosaic (anti-MBS critique, free expression, Yemen war, last column posthumous)
From Jamal Khashoggi (1958-2018, Saudi journalist, former editor-in-chief of Al-Watan and former advisor to Prince Turki bin Faisal; broke with the Saudi regime over MBS's repression of dissent and self-exiled to the US…
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). Jamal Khashoggi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/jamal-khashoggi
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Jamal Khashoggi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/jamal-khashoggi.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-jamal-khashoggi,
title = {{Jamal Khashoggi}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/jamal-khashoggi},
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.