Israel Party leader

Sami Abou Shahadeh

سامي أبو شحادة סאמי אבו שחאדה

Party leader In opposition Unverified

Leader of Balad (the National Democratic Assembly). Historian by training; led the party through the 2022 split from the Joint List that left it short of the threshold.

Country: Israel
Party: Balad
Role: Party leader

Position

Sami Abou Shahadeh sits with Balad, which doesn't carry a single compass position of its own yet.

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). Sami Abou Shahadeh [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 22, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abou-shahadeh

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Sami Abou Shahadeh." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 22, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abou-shahadeh.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-abou-shahadeh,
  title     = {{Sami Abou Shahadeh}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/abou-shahadeh},
  urldate   = {2026-06-22},
  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 22, 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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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 = {2026-06-22},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.