Tayyar.
Portrait of Rafik Hariri LB flag

LB flag Lebanon Head of government

Rafik Hariri

رفيق الحريري
Head of government Inactive Verified

Lebanese Sunni billionaire and Future Movement founder; Prime Minister 1992-1998 and 2000-2004; architect of post-civil-war Beirut reconstruction (Solidere). Assassinated by truck bomb on 14 February 2005, triggering the Cedar Revolution and the end of 29 years of Syrian military occupation. Father of Saad Hariri.

Country
Lebanon
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of government
Status
Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Rafik Hariri (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). Rafik Hariri [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rafik-hariri
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Rafik Hariri." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rafik-hariri.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-rafik-hariri,
  title     = {{Rafik Hariri}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/rafik-hariri},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.