Syria Activist
Razan Zaitouneh
رزان زيتونةSyrian human-rights lawyer, founder of the Violations Documentation Center which catalogued atrocities by all sides in the Syrian civil war. Abducted with three colleagues in Douma in December 2013; her fate remains officially unknown. Awarded the Anna Politkovskaya Award in 2011.
- Country
- Syria
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Activist
- Status
- Historical figure
Position
1 source document on file for Razan Zaitouneh (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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Interview English Razan Zaitouneh (Syrian human-rights lawyer; founder of the Violations Documentation Center; 2011 Sakharov laureate) — direct quotes to Reuters, 2011 (per Syrian Observer profile): insisting "maintaining a peaceful uprising is the best guarantee for its victory," and warning the regime deliberately pushed the revolution toward violence and sectarianism to kill it. Abducted in Douma (the "Douma Four"), Dec 2013.
I still insist that maintaining a peaceful uprising is the best guarantee for its victory. From the first moment of the revolution, the regime has been pushing towards turning people to violence and turning the…
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). Razan Zaitouneh [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/razan-zaitouneh
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Razan Zaitouneh." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/razan-zaitouneh.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-razan-zaitouneh,
title = {{Razan Zaitouneh}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/razan-zaitouneh},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
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 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.