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Salwa Bugaighis

سلوى بوقعيقيص
Activist Independent Inactive Verified

Libyan lawyer and secular pro-democracy activist; a leading voice in the 2011 revolution and a vocal critic of Islamist militias after Gaddafi's fall. Assassinated at her home in Benghazi on 25 June 2014 — the day of Libya's parliamentary elections, which she had publicly urged Libyans to vote in.

Country
Libya
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Activist
Status
Historical figure

Position

No party affiliation or 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). Salwa Bugaighis [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salwa-bugaighis
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Salwa Bugaighis." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salwa-bugaighis.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-salwa-bugaighis,
  title     = {{Salwa Bugaighis}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salwa-bugaighis},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.