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Karim Tabbou

كريم طابو

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Algerian opposition activist and former FFS spokesperson; one of the most prominent voices of the 2019 Hirak protest movement. Repeatedly imprisoned by the post-Bouteflika regime on charges related to his public speeches.

Country: Algeria
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Karim Tabbou (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 →

Social post English

Karim Tabbou (Algerian opposition leader; prominent Hirak figure, repeatedly jailed) — from a Facebook video (~Apr 2019, per HRW): his Hirak challenge to army chief Gaid Salah — by "what right have you to close the roads… shut down the internet… close public transportation of Algerians … impose your will on Algerians?"

what right have you to close the roads in the face of Algerians, shut down the internet of Algerians, close public transportation of Algerians … impose your will on Algerians?

30 words original source ↗

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). Karim Tabbou [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/karim-tabbou

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Karim Tabbou." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/karim-tabbou.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-karim-tabbou,
  title     = {{Karim Tabbou}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/karim-tabbou},
  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.