Bahrain Head of government

Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa

سلمان بن حمد آل خليفة

Head of government In government Verified

Crown 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

Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa governs without formal party mediation and has no source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

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 June 21, 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 June 21, 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   = {2026-06-21},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.