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Saad Hariri

سعد الحريري
Head of government Inactive Verified

Prime minister of Lebanon 2009-2011, 2016-2020 (in two appointments), leader of the Future Movement, son of assassinated former PM Rafik Hariri. Resigned from politics in 2022.

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

Position

2 source documents on file for Saad Hariri (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Saad Hariri that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • I declare my resignation from the premiership of the Lebanese government, knowing well the will of the late prime minister, the martyr Rafik Hariri, to confront this evil.
    أعلن استقالتي من رئاسة الحكومة اللبنانية، وأنا أعلم تماماً إرادة الراحل رئيس الحكومة الشهيد رفيق الحريري في مواجهة هذا الشر.
    2017 November 4 2017 televised statement from Riyadh that triggered a regional crisis — the prime minister of one country resigning live on the channel of another, while clearly under duress. en.wikipedia.org

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)

APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Saad Hariri [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saad-hariri
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Saad Hariri." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saad-hariri.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-saad-hariri,
  title     = {{Saad Hariri}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saad-hariri},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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.