Billionaire Mikati becomes PM amid Lebanon's collapse

Najib Mikati — by Forbes the richest man in Lebanon ($2.8bn) and a three-time premier — formed a government on 10 September 2021 amid the country's historic financial meltdown, then governed in a caretaker capacity through the 2024 war with Israel and even exercised presidential powers during the 2022–2025 vacancy. A consummate figure of the post-war establishment, he is widely blamed for the elite paralysis behind Lebanon's collapse.

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Najib Mikati head-of-government

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Billionaire Mikati becomes PM amid Lebanon's collapse [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/b1e016d0-972c-43f9-81c3-051dde326acc

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Billionaire Mikati becomes PM amid Lebanon's collapse." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/b1e016d0-972c-43f9-81c3-051dde326acc.

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@misc{tayyar-event-b1e016d0-972c-43f9-81c3-051dde326acc,
  title     = {{Billionaire Mikati becomes PM amid Lebanon's collapse}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/b1e016d0-972c-43f9-81c3-051dde326acc},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2021-09-10. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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 = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2021-09-10. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.