Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman appointed Prime Minister

King Salman appointed his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the prime ministership — a post the monarch has historically held in concurrent capacity. The move codified what was already true: MBS runs the country. It also offered him head-of-government legal immunity in the US courts then weighing the Khashoggi case, and the Biden administration accepted the immunity claim that November.

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In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman appointed Prime Minister [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/002808c1-a3c3-45d4-aa3a-77afa02850ab

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman appointed Prime Minister." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/002808c1-a3c3-45d4-aa3a-77afa02850ab.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-002808c1-a3c3-45d4-aa3a-77afa02850ab,
  title     = {{Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman appointed Prime Minister}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/002808c1-a3c3-45d4-aa3a-77afa02850ab},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Event date: 2022-09-27. 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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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.}
}

Event date: 2022-09-27. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.