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Portrait of Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KW flag

KW flag Kuwait Head of state

Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

مشعل الأحمد الجابر الصباح
Head of state In government Verified

Emir of Kuwait since December 2023. Dissolved the National Assembly in May 2024 and suspended parts of the constitution for up to four years.

Country
Kuwait
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Position

1 source document on file for Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (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 →

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). Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mishal-kw
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mishal-kw.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-mishal-kw,
  title     = {{Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mishal-kw},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.