Tayyar.
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Shireen Abu Akleh

شيرين أبو عاقلة
Activist Independent Inactive Verified

Palestinian-American journalist; senior correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic covering Palestine since 1997. Killed by Israeli forces while reporting in Jenin on 2022-05-11; her death drew international condemnation and several investigations attributing the fatal shot to an Israeli soldier.

Country
Palestine
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Activist
Status
Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Shireen Abu Akleh (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; 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 →

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). Shireen Abu Akleh [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/shireen-abu-akleh
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Shireen Abu Akleh." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/shireen-abu-akleh.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-shireen-abu-akleh,
  title     = {{Shireen Abu Akleh}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/shireen-abu-akleh},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.