Bahrain Head of government
Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa
سلمان بن حمد آل خليفةCrown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain since November 2020. Architect of Bahrain's post-2011 economic reform and normalization track.
- Country
- Bahrain
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of government
Position
2 source documents on file for Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (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.
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 2025-05-27 Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Crown Prince & PM of Bahrain) — Bahrain's statement at the inaugural GCC–ASEAN–China Summit, Kuala Lumpur, 27 May 2025 (his official website): positioning Bahrain in a Gulf–Asia multilateral partnership built on trade, maritime security, and "the values of dialogue, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence." [Second doc — distinct multilateral-partnership / coexistence axis, vs his Gaza-war doc.]
Through deeper partnership, we can advance even further—by securing vital maritime routes and trade corridors, combating terrorism and extremism, preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and…
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Speech English 2023-11-18 Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Crown Prince & PM of Bahrain) — remarks at the Manama Dialogue, Nov 2023 (Newsweek): condemning both Hamas's 7 October attack ("barbaric") and Israel's Gaza air campaign, insisting "no real security will ever be realized until a real two-state solution is found," and that "the United States is indispensable" to peace.
The attacks on October 7 were barbaric. I unequivocally condemn the air campaign that resulted in the death of over 11,000 people in Gaza, 4,700 of which are children. No real security will ever be realized until a…
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). Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salman-bin-hamad
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salman-bin-hamad.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-salman-bin-hamad,
title = {{Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salman-bin-hamad},
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.