Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social Chinese-Italian Scallion • Correspondent, comedian • Host of The Bitchuation Room Podcast on YouTube and Twitch • Newsbroke on @ajplus• IG: @franifio
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
Graham Griffiths @grahamgriffiths.bsky.social Head of Geopolitical Risk, MENAT @HSBC
Michael Battalia @battalia.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Princeton University and Visiting Student at École nationale supérieure (Paris). Writing a dissertation on “Modern Arab Intellectuals and the Making of Modern Saudi Arabia, 1919-1939”
Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social Saudi Arabia and UAE Researcher @HRW • she/her
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joey-shea
Rosewilliams.bsky.social @rosewilli.bsky.social Oncology and hematology surgery nursing.Dm if you've one or two,I'll solve it for you
Irfan Ahmed Nazir @irfannazir.bsky.social Social Scientist | Qualitative Researcher | Politics, Education, Migration, International Relations, and the Middle East | Reposts ≠ endorsements
www.irfanahmednazir.com
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
Arnaud Lager @handle.invalid CEO @Decahydron | Leading the way in natural hydrogen production & CO₂ mineralisation. Transforming ultramafic rock into climate solutions.
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#CleanEnergy #Hydrogen #CarbonStorage
Farah Youssef @farahysf.bsky.social Very loud, very political 💁🏻♀️👩🏼🦳
Robbie Corey-Boulet @rcoreyb.bsky.social West and Central Africa bureau chief, Reuters. Author of Love Falls On Us: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/love-falls-on-us-9781786995179/. Robbie.corey-boulet@thomsonreuters.com. Ex-AFP, WPR. Previously in Riyadh, Addis, Abidjan, elsewhere. 5x marathoner
Neerav Patel @npatelfcdo.bsky.social 
Seif Usher سيف اشر @seifusher.bsky.social London 🇬🇧@fcdo.
M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own
https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php
Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social International order, ignorance, recognition, Middle East, and other cool stuff
karimeltaki.com
Anis Chouchane @anischouchane.bsky.social Posts about International Relations, Human Rights, International Law, Science and Space. Opinions are my own.
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Dr Sarina Wakefield @sarinawakefield.bsky.social Lecturer in Museum Studies, Dean of Internationalisation, University of Leicester. Research focus on Gulf Museums and Heritage & transnationalism.
Director, Museums in Arabia. Routledge Series Editor: Cultural Heritage, Art and Museums in the Middle East
Museums in Arabia @museumsinarabia.bsky.social Internationally established network focusing on the arts, heritage and museums in the Arabian Peninsula.
Anuj Chopra @anujchopra.bsky.social Disinformation correspondent, AFP. New America Fellow. Based in Washington D.C. Past lives: New York, Riyadh, Kabul, Hong Kong, Pune. Ex-Knight Bagehot and Dart Center Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University. Scoops, food recs? anuj.chopra@afp.com
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
Bob Sacamano @bobsaccamanno.bsky.social Stats, survey research, politics, religion. Research faculty in the GCC. En/Ar/Fr
"But what I never knew I never will forget" - John Prine, One Red Rose- S Steffen Hertog @shertog.bsky.social Political economist with focus on Middle East and political violence, based at LSE
Carla van der Waal @carlavdw.bsky.social Dutch. What else.
Eten, slapen, zitten, kijken, zeiken
Daniel Rad @danrad.bsky.social Writer, editor and director of Future Economic Rural Network, researcher on rural regeneration/decline. Also on Intellinews.
Ktj2day Free Falasteen فلسطين; @ktj2day.bsky.social From tiktok land. As always free Palestine. Free Lebanon. Leave Yemen alone. And fuck Israel and all of the Zionists backers.
♥️🇵🇸💚🇾🇪🤍🇱🇧🖤
Cozie T @cozmiester.bsky.social Highlander living in Glasgow. St Roch's. Independence is normal.
Joakim Parslow @joakimparslow.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies/ modern Turkey at the University of Copenhagen, but primarily employed by two little kids. Turkish law, STS, intellectual history. 
Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.
www.deensharp.com
Anna Jordanova @jordanovaan.bsky.social On #CentralAsia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. #PhD&memes, mostly. Call sign: Academic kelin. PlovINT, random rants.
Robert Smith @drrgsmith.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University. Research interests British Foreign Policy, Iraq, and Kurdistan. Mostly here for Luton Town and The Archers.
Leticia Rodriguez @letirgar.bsky.social PhD Gulf Studies | Visiting Researcher at GU-Q
UGR|EHU
Leftist and Feminist.
#WomeninScience
https://ugr.academia.edu/LeticiaRodriguez/Analytics/activity/overview 
Gabriel Gluskin-Braun @ggluskinbraun.bsky.social MENA Politics researcher, Arabic-English translator, Arabic instructor. 
Harald Viersen @haraldviersen.bsky.social Assistant professor in Islamic Studies @ Radboud, Nijmegen. Raised as a philosopher, now mostly working on contemporary Arab thought and intellectual and conceptual histories in Islam. Check out my book, it's free! https://shorturl.at/e0GFj
Antagoniste 🏴 @antagonisteqc.bsky.social It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
(Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5)
Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO
@nuqatar.bsky.social, Founder @iasnuq.bsky.social, Professor
@northwesternu, Board Chair @ACLS1919 Board Member
& @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Aziz @azizmulhim.bsky.social ID fellow. Here for dumb takes on Arsenal, Culture, and Infectious Diseases. Saudi in Chicago
Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH).
Habeeb @focusbreak.bsky.social He/Him. Photographer, former Twitch affiliate, gamer, gamedev. Currently working on a point & click adventure game.
I post about all sorts of things. Expect a lot of retro games and emulators posts.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 
Waleed Hazbun @whazbun.bsky.social IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
Meera @zoomeera.bsky.social Books and things
Here for comedy, tragedy and political commentary
She/Her
Professor Simon Chadwick @professorchadwick.bsky.social Professor of Afro-Eurasian Sport
https://substack.com/@geosport200
Omimo @omimomo.bsky.social 
Dominic D. Wells @dominicdwells.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Fire Administration Program
Bowling Green State University
Author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging (Temple University Press)
www.dominicdwells.com
Ziad Daoud @ziaddaoud.bsky.social Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg. Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Views are mine. 
سارح فى الملكوت @tito0319802.bsky.social 
@yasmin335.bsky.social @yasmin335.bsky.social 
Gabriel C. Kelly @gabekellyfp.bsky.social Political Science PhD Student | Comparative Politics | Fulbright, GW ESIA, & Gettysburg Alum (Views My Own, RP ≠ Endorsement) https://sites.google.com/view/gabriel-c-kelly/home
Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University | Wesleyan Alumn | Mixed Methods, MENA Politics
🖥️ mohameddhiahammami.com- M MooTcha 🇨🇦 @mootcha.bsky.social Tying…
- M Mohamed Almarri @malmarri.bsky.social PopGen & Evolution
Abdullah @abdullah91.bsky.social 
Amna Almadani @amnaalmadani.bsky.social 
howtomuslim @howtomuslim.bsky.social Islam | Muslim Community | Islamic Knowledge
At HowToMuslim, we strive to provide an all-encompassing, educational platform for a growing Muslim population.
www.howtomuslim.org
Follow us on our other accounts: www.hopp.bio/howtomuslim
Alrougui @alrougui.bsky.social - 3 @3arikah.bsky.social @3arikah.bsky.social
Nermin Allam @nerminallam.bsky.social Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social Associate Professor, IR of the Middle East, University of Birmingham Author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (CUP).
Kameal Alahmad @kameal.bsky.social Research Fellow - King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies 
Midwest Political Science Association @mpsa.bsky.social The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science. Visit our website at www.MPSAnet.org to learn more.- K Kristin Diwan @kdiwan.bsky.social
luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social Poli Sci PhD. Kuwaiti National Assembly - Saudi Shura Council . دكتور في العلوم السياسية
Ammar Shamaileh @ammars.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics & IR at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - MENA politics, political economy and repression/violence
Marwan Almuraisy مروان المريسي @almuraisy.bsky.social وما بكم من نعمة فمن الله ❤️ صحافي، ورائد أعمال، مهتم بالشغف والإبداع والابتكار، أحاول أن أكون مفيداً، وما توفيقي إلا بالله Journalist & Entrepreneur
Umar Karim @umerkarim.bsky.social Researcher. Interested in Gulf Studies/Saudi Arabia/South Asia
البدو من الأوقات- A Ahmad Qushmaq @aqushmaq.bsky.social Exploring.
Harris Mylonas @harrismylonas.bsky.social ▫️Prof. of Political Science @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Director of IERES @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Editor-in-chief of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social
▫️Nationalism | nation-building | migration | diasporas
🔗 https://harrismylonas.com
Lillian Frost @lillyfrost.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech, focused on citizenship, migration, law, gender, and Middle East politics, mainly in Jordan
Hala Abi Saleh @halaabisaleh.bsky.social Interested in power /🗺 order (IR)
PhD Candidate UCLouvain
Gulf Region - SWANA (MENA) - Emerging Powers - Middle Powers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hala-abi-saleh/
الشبكة العربية للعلوم السياسية (APSN) @arabpsn.bsky.social مؤسسة غير ربحية تعنى بدعم وربط الباحثين العرب في العلوم
السياسية.
Collaborative initiative seeking to support Arab political scientists
Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
Amar jeet @amarjeat.bsky.social 
Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Political Science
@Yale. Formerly @MITPoliSci @HarvardWCFIA. Contentious politics in Jordan & Syria. peripatetic product of the garden state.
https://biffpm.github.io/
Müge Uğuz @mugeuguz.bsky.social Political Science PhD Student at George Washington University
MA @CEU @BilkentIR
Rosalie Rubio, PhD @rosalierubio.bsky.social She/They | Associate Director of the Centennial Center at
@apsa.bsky.social | alt-alt-academic (?) | part-time comedian, full-time pagliacci| Benito’s personal assistant 🐾| Views are ENTIRELY my own and correct.
Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: https://law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية- A Abbas Al Lawati @allawati.bsky.social Journalist
Sharan Grewal @sharangrewal.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings
Me: https://sharangrewal.com/
My book: https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Democracy-Military-Legacies-Spring/dp/0198873514/
Mohammed Soliman @soliman.bsky.social Tech & Geopolitics & Business & EMEA. Director, Middle East Institute. Fellow @ FPRI & Third Way & Trilateral Commission. Charts & Maps. Book: West Asia (10/2025)
Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social academic & author writing about labour & development in global political economy
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https://www.crystalennis.com/
Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd @brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social JRF in politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Saudi Arabia, Middle East politics & computational social science
Bedirhan E. Mutlu (بدرهان) @bemutlu.bsky.social Mostly into politics, religion, democracy, and parties in SWANA. Particularly watching Tunisia. PhDing @GWU, prev. Sciences Po
David Siddhartha Patel @davidpatel.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
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Nora Doaiji نورة الدعيجي @doaiji.bsky.social I am Saudi-American. I breathe Freedom. I bleed Oil. • Harvard PhD Candidate • ∞ زوجي @alamer.bsky.social • @Ana3rabeya on Twitter • NoraDoaiji.com • ☮️🍋 •