Lebanon Head of government
Nawaf Salam
نواف سلامPrime Minister of Lebanon since February 2025. Former ICJ judge and Lebanon's ambassador to the UN; appointed to lead a reformist non-Hezbollah-led government after the 12-day Israel-Hezbollah war.
- Country
- Lebanon
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Head of government
Position
2 source documents on file for Nawaf Salam (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; 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 →
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Interview English 2026-02-04 Nawaf Salam (Prime Minister of Lebanon from Feb 2025; former ICJ president) — Euronews interview, 4 Feb 2026: the state's monopoly on arms and restoring state authority — "the army is our main tool to enforce our goal to have the monopoly over arms and to restore state authority over all the Lebanese territory" — plus condemning Israel's occupation of the south. The reformist / state-sovereignty pole.
We will need their help, because the army is our main tool to enforce our goal to have the monopoly over arms and to restore state authority over all the Lebanese territory. Unfortunately, we must address the issue of…
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Article English 2025-01-13 Nawaf Salam named Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon (13 Jan 2025)
On 13 January 2025, Nawaf Salam was nominated by 84 of Lebanon's 128 members of parliament, making him prime minister-designate days after Joseph Aoun's election as president. Salam was at the time president of the…
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). Nawaf Salam [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salam
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Nawaf Salam." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salam.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-salam,
title = {{Nawaf Salam}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salam},
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.