Egypt Activist
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
سعد الدين إبراهيمEgyptian sociologist and founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Imprisoned 2000–2003 under Mubarak on civil-society funding charges later overturned by Egypt's highest court. Long-standing advocate for liberal democracy and minority rights in the Arab world.
- Country
- Egypt
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Activist
Position
1 source document on file for Saad Eddin Ibrahim (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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Article English Saad Eddin Ibrahim (Egyptian-American sociologist; "father of Egyptian civil society"; jailed under Mubarak) — from his article "Toward Muslim Democracies" (via New Lines): his signature argument for the democratic INCLUSION of Islamists — "enlist Islamists under the flag of democracy" — rather than their exclusion. Coiner of "jumlukiya"; democracy as the cure for both tyranny and fundamentalism.
it will be better for us as democrats, for the Islamists, and for Egypt to enlist Islamists under the flag of democracy.
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). Saad Eddin Ibrahim [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saad-eddin-ibrahim
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Saad Eddin Ibrahim." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saad-eddin-ibrahim.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-saad-eddin-ibrahim,
title = {{Saad Eddin Ibrahim}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saad-eddin-ibrahim},
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.