Maryam al-Khawaja

مريم الخواجة

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Bahraini-Danish human-rights activist; daughter of imprisoned Bahraini opposition leader Abdulhadi al-Khawaja. Co-founded the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Based in Denmark; arrested whenever she has attempted to return to Bahrain to visit her imprisoned father.

Country: Bahrain
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Maryam al-Khawaja (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 2012-03-06

Maryam al-Khawaja (Bahraini human-rights defender; Gulf Center for Human Rights / Bahrain Center for Human Rights) — interview with Diplomatic Courier, March 2012 (~first anniversary of the uprising): a human-rights-universalist stance — "our view is not what kind of government there should be, but... making sure we have a government that respects human rights" — and the 2011 uprising as breaking "the barrier of fear."

To me as a human rights activist, our view is not what kind of government there should be, but rather it’s making sure we have a government that respects human rights. I think that is the most important thing to us. I…

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How to cite

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In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Maryam al-Khawaja [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/maryam-al-khawaja

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Maryam al-Khawaja." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/maryam-al-khawaja.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

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

Dataset / working-paper citation

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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.