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Tarek Bitar

طارق البيطار
Other In government Independent Verified

Lebanese investigating judge appointed to lead the inquiry into the August 2020 Beirut port blast that killed over 200 people. He has charged senior security officials, ministers, and the central-bank governor; his progress has been repeatedly suspended by legal challenges from the accused and threatened by the political establishment. The blast investigation has become the single most concrete test of post-2019 Lebanese accountability.

Country
Lebanon
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Other

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). Tarek Bitar [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tarek-bitar-lb
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Tarek Bitar." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tarek-bitar-lb.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-tarek-bitar-lb,
  title     = {{Tarek Bitar}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tarek-bitar-lb},
  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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.