Salman al-Awda

سلمان العودة

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Saudi Islamic scholar with a public following measured in tens of millions. Imprisoned since September 2017 in the broader MBS-era roundup of clerics, intellectuals, and reformers; the Saudi public prosecutor in 2018 sought the death penalty on charges including a tweet welcoming the prospect of reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Trial proceedings have been intermittent; he remains in pretrial detention nine years on.

Country: Saudi Arabia
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Salman al-Awda (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 2017-09-09

Salman al-Awda (prominent Saudi reformist cleric; detained Sept 2017) — per Human Rights Watch (7 Jan 2018): ordered to tweet support for the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, he instead posted a call for Gulf reconciliation ("may God harmonize between their hearts for the good of their people") and was detained, held in solitary confinement without charge, with travel bans imposed on his family.

He said he believed that al-Awda was being held because he hadn’t complied with an order from Saudi authorities to tweet a specific text to support the Saudi-led isolation of Qatar. Instead, he posted a tweet on…

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). Salman al-Awda [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salman-al-awda-sa

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Salman al-Awda." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salman-al-awda-sa.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-salman-al-awda-sa,
  title     = {{Salman al-Awda}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/salman-al-awda-sa},
  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.