Iraq Activist

Reham Yacoub

ريهام يعقوب

Activist In opposition Independent Inactive Verified

Iraqi feminist activist and Tishreen-movement organizer in Basra. Assassinated in August 2020 by a gunman who fired into her car; she had been a public organizer for women's participation in the 2019-2020 Iraqi anti-corruption protests. No prosecution has resulted; the killing was attributed to Iranian-aligned militias by Iraqi government commissions but the chain of responsibility has never been formalized.

Country: Iraq
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist
Status: Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Reham Yacoub (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 →

Interview English

Reham Yacoub (Iraqi doctor; women's-rights campaigner; Basra Tishreen protest organizer, assassinated Aug 2020) — Middle East Eye interview, 2018: her defiant resolve — "We are expecting that we might get killed as well, but this won't stop us from asking for our rights and it won't stop us from living" — and determination to keep protesting until their demands are met.

We are expecting that we might get killed as well, but this won't stop us from asking for our rights and it won't stop us from living. They have not heard any of our demands until now. The situation is getting worse.…

66 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). Reham Yacoub [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/reham-yacoub-iq

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Reham Yacoub." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/reham-yacoub-iq.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-reham-yacoub-iq,
  title     = {{Reham Yacoub}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/reham-yacoub-iq},
  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.