Faisal Abdullah Abualhassan | فيصل عبدالله أبوالحسن @faisal-abu.bsky.social Historian of race, empire, and slavery and descent in the desert world.
PhD, Johns Hopkins (2026)
Mondes désertiques - Sahara et Arabie
مؤرخ العِرق والرِّق والنسب في العالم الصحاري من أفريقيا إلى الجزيرة العربية
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social Journalist at the Financial Times, ex London Centric. Not the chancellor. Email me on rachel.rees@ft.com
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Saudi Arabia, West Asia, political economy, et al.
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Mohammed Alyousei @alyousei.bsky.social Saudi journalist - GM of Asharq Documentary & Asharq Discovery Channels
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Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World. University of Edinburgh. Critical approaches to international law & human rights, Islamic law, feminist theory.
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Edmund Bower @edmundbower.bsky.social Journalist based in Dubai/Riyadh covering Saudi Arabia and the wider region.
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Ali Shihabi علي الشهابي @alishihabi.bsky.social Writing about the Politics and Economics of Saudi Arabia
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Joost Hiltermann @joosthiltermann.bsky.social MENA Program Director @crisisgroup. Conflict mitigation, human rights, good food. Author of "The Resurrected," a novel (forthcoming 2025). 
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
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Toby Craig Jones @tobycjones.bsky.social Professor, Middle East History, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Gulf, Rutgers University, Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
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Issandr Amrani @arabist.net I write about politics, geopolitics, technology and culture, with particular focus on MENA. Recovering journalist and OG blogger at arabist.net; formerly at
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Camille Lons @camillelons.bsky.social Deputy Head Paris office and Policy fellow @ecfr #MiddleEast geoeconomics, #Gulf, #China-MENA, #RedSea. Ex-@IISS_org
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
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Attracta Mooney @attractamooney.bsky.social Climate correspondent at the Financial Times. Used to write about the investment industry. Irish.
Hashem Alrefai @hha821.bsky.social PhD Candidate-Sociology: Historical Sociology, Social movement.
University of Pittsburgh
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com Head of Design for Microsoft AI. Designed some other products you have probably used like Twitter (sorry!) and ESPN.com. Showerhead connoisseur and conscientious shoelace objector.
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
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Peter Spiegel @spiegelpeter.bsky.social Managing Editor of The Washington Post. Long-suffering Orioles fan.
Simeon Kerr @simeonkerr.bsky.social Scotland correspondent, former Gulf correspondent - Financial Times
David Sheppard @oilsheppard.bsky.social Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
Arash Massoudi @arashmassoudi.ft.com Finance & Markets Editor at the Financial Times
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Anne-Sylvaine Chassany @chassnews.bsky.social FT Berlin bureau chief, former Companies editor, World editor and Paris bureau chief
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Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth.bsky.social Deputy Director for Latin America @crisisgroup.org. Past lives in the Arabian Peninsula and West Africa. Ex-journo, @economist.com @foreignpolicy.com. Runner.
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Brian Whitaker @brianwhitaker.bsky.social Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East', plus several other books about the region. Website: al-bab.com
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