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

No party affiliation or source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

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). Maryam al-Khawaja [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 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 June 21, 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   = {2026-06-21},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.