Lebanon Head of government
Saad Hariri
سعد الحريريPrime 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.
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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.
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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Speech English 2018-12-13 Saad Hariri — “Lebanon: A Vision for the Future” (Chatham House, on-the-record address & Q&A), 13 December 2018
[…] I always say to people, you know, this is a regional issue, this is not a Lebanese issue. This is an Iranian issue and if we want to deal with the issue, let's sit down on a table and let's stop these wars and let's…
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Speech Arabic 2017-11-04 Saad Hariri — March-14 Sunni leader on Saudi-detention silence + Assad-as-monster (2012-2019)
From Saad Hariri (b. 1970, son of assassinated Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri; leader of the Future Movement, the dominant Sunni Muslim political party in Lebanon; Prime Minister 2009-2011 and 2016-2020, presiding over 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). 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.}
} 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.