Kamran Rastegar @krastegar.bsky.social Literature • Cinema • Music • Politics • Middle East
Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
Bassam Haddad @4bassam.bsky.social Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social 
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net For 20 years, Mondoweiss has covered the powers that sustain Israeli apartheid – and how people resist it, from Palestine to the U.S.
Banner: Palestinian children with a donkey cart on the beach in Gaza before the Israeli genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net
Aaron Jakes @aaronjakes.bsky.social Assistant prof at UChicago history. Working on a book about the Suez Canal and global inequality. Mediocre saxophonist but always striving for improvement. 
Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social ⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. The Red Nation. Red Media.⚡️ 
Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓🏆See 👉🏼 https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html
and see my Linktree 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/arang.keshavarzian
Rola El-Husseini @rola-husseini.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
ME politics- gender- conflict
She/her
David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Lindsey Moore @lcmoore.bsky.social Postcolonialist, writer, reader, dog servant, off and on Arabic learner, riding the UK academia rollercoaster, kiwi at heart
Omar Sirri @aoms.bsky.social 
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter- E @enjayes1.bsky.social @enjayes1.bsky.social
Heather Jaber @heatherjaber.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern in Qatar. PhD at Annenberg UPenn. Graduate of AUB in Lebanon. Studying affect/emotion, digital media, and the MENA.
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
advait @advaitarun.bsky.social capital markets & energy finance @ Center for Public Enterprise ☀️🏗️ • fmr US Treasury • bay area / dc • advaitcore.substack.com.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. - M Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
Mohamed Mandour @mandour.bsky.social Masters of Human Rights @Humphery School, University of Minnesota. MENA Researcher @Committee to Protect Journalists. #Press_Freedom, #Transnational_Repression, and #Tech_policy. Words are mine! 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Kamal @okda.bsky.social From refugee to entrepreneur, I teach the importance of living your values. Expert in crisis mediation, I find balance in sailing. Making an impact on land and at sea. ⛵ 🇨🇦🇪🇬🇺🇦🇺🇸
Nancy Okail @nancyokail.bsky.social President & CEO @CIPolicy. Ex-convict, Scholar, Tango dancer. Advocate: Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security. @Stanford, @SussexUni. Fmr ED @TimepDC
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Emily Drumsta @drumsta.bsky.social too weird to live, too rare to die
Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social Scholar, mother, dancer, boxer, home chef, and lover of cocktails, hard core, and dark chocolate; Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Middle East politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
المواطن الأصمر @iemam.bsky.social نبطشي الفترة الصباحية علي بلوسكاي
Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social Living on Lunaapahkiing, faculty at IAS, servant of two cats and sometimes one dog. 
Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social ProPublica reporter. Email tips/comments/complaints: justin@propublica.org
Signal: https://www.propublica.org/people/justin-elliott/
More: justinelliott.co 
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
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Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social My animal companions are Benji (cat) and Chester (dog)
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity.
Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie |
👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10.
Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you
christophersrose.com
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
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
Zora O'Neill @zoraoneill.com Author, ALL STRANGERS ARE KIN (now an AUDIOBOOK!). Editor. I comment on: Arabic, refugees, travel, grammar, Queens, more. she/her. Profile pic: black tee with “love” in white, in Arabic and English. Banner: mosaic of Manhattan skyline seen f/ Queens.
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social صعلوك الادب
Jérémie Langlois @jeremielanglois.bsky.social Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researching contentious politics and institutional change in MENA.
https://jeremielanglois.com/
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
K-Sue Park @ksuenamu.bsky.social 
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.- F Free Alaa @freealaa.bsky.social Campaign to free imprisoned democracy activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Egypt'sBeer @omardfoda.bsky.social Writer: Egypt, History, Beer
http://omar.foda.family
https://substack.com/@omardfoda
Anny Gaul @annygaul.bsky.social Author of Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (2025) 🍅 Ceasefire + arms embargo now 🍉 Views my own 🍅 https://bio.site/annygaul
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social co-host Citations Needed podcast.
order my new book ‘How to Sell a Genocide’ here https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide or https://a.co/d/0hl4hmFi
columnblog.com
Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social 
Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social I explore fractured modernities across the Arab world and the Mediterranean. Political sociologist, public scholar and UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. 📍 Casablanca 🌐 www.amroali.com
Ramy Yaacoub @ramyyaacoub.bsky.social 🥷 at @open-society.bsky.social. ex @timep.bsky.social. Rocket Scientist @EmbryRiddle. M.A. @ausis.bsky.social. Political Analyst. Scuba Diver. English, Arabic, y un poco de Español 🇨🇦🇪🇬🇺🇸
Twitter: @ramyyaacoub
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu
Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Next Books: “Every Man a Sovereign” and “Going Low”
Libby to my pals
Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social 
Solafa Magdy @solafamagdy.bsky.social Mother | Exiled Journalist | @Paris Citizenship 2020 | Courage in Journalism Winner 2020 @IWMF | Ex. Fellow @TimepDC |
Determined to share my Cellmates' Stories ✌🏼
نص بيضحك والتاني زعلان .. انا شيخ فلتان 🕊️
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social okra eater.
omnia khalil أمنية خليل @omniakhalil.bsky.social Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
Wael Eskandar @weskandar.bsky.social A writer of sorts
Zeinobia @zeinobia.bsky.social Egyptian Blogger / Journalist / Photographer. Keybase:
@zeinobia
. Just another talkative Egyptian RT is not an Endorsement.
VJ Um Amel (Laila Shereen Sakr) @vjumamel.bsky.social Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara
https://vjumamel.com
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Bulaq Podcast @bulaqbooks.bsky.social Book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey. Produced by Sowt. Email bulaq@sowt.com.
M Lynx Qualey @mlynxqualey.bsky.social e.g. Author, translator, critic, founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly.
al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social PhD in Arabic and Turkish literature (linguistic narratology, bioregionalism) / alt-ac career in SWANA education / eco-socialist / singing about left-wing Texas history with Texastextbooks.Bandcamp.com
Tom Abi Samra @tabisamra.bsky.social premodern arabic lit @ princeton
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Josh Stacher @stacher.bsky.social Professor of International Studies, Yogi (not in that order).