Alex MacDonald @alexjaymac.bsky.social Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly talk about Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, UK and Turkey. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
Matthew W. C. Dallas @matthewdallas.bsky.social Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.
Political Theory · critical legal geography · property theory.
Writing on land, law, and time. 🏴 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Orchid: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3038-1151
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
David Sterman @davidsterman.bsky.social Deputy Director, New America Future Security program
“All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror” https://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Wars-Twenty-Five-Americas/dp/1324124067/
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Christopher Donoghue @chris-donoghue.bsky.social Dr. Christopher Donoghue is Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. He also directs the MA in Social Research & Data Analysis.
His books include Statistics: A Tool for Social Research & Data Analysis 12/e and the Sociology of Bullying.
Olmo Gölz @olmo-goelz.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Islamic Studies and Iranian Studies | University of Freiburg
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
European Research Center for Social Development @social.npo.one We do Research and Policy Recommendation on the Future of Work, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, and Sustainable Building
Dhouha Djerbi @dhouha-djerbi.bsky.social PhD candidate in Polisci @ Geneva Graduate Institute | Interest in rural conflict, women's movements, Tunisian politics, research methods.
تونس & Genève
Bauke Baumann @baukebaumann.bsky.social Political Scientist with focus on Middle East, human rights & ecological justice | working as Senior Programme Officer for @boell.de
@svanhildur.bsky.social @svanhildur.bsky.social Assoc Prof of political science and public admin at Uni of Iceland. Live in Reykjavik. Study international organizations, bureaucracies, quant methods.
Yomna ElSharony @kamunaskies.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Cornell University; thinking and writing about human-nature temporalities, critical logistics and infrastructure studies, and the political economy of maritime transportation and seaports.
Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School
Author of “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (2025)
www.candacelukasik.com
@waltcurnow.bsky.social @waltcurnow.bsky.social 
Qantara @qantarade.bsky.social Diskurse über Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur auf Arabisch, Englisch und Deutsch. Unseren Newsletter gibt's hier: qantara.de/newsletter
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
Gabriel Garroum Pla @gabrielgarroum.bsky.social Postdoc ir IR - Research Group in International Public Law & International Relations @upf.edu- T Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com Accidental Economist. Prof at Universities of Warwick & Bonn . Visiting Prof Grantham, Visiting Fellow STICERD @ LSE. ERC STG. Fellow @ CEPR & Associate Editor Economic Journal.
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
@open-society.bsky.social and @crisisgroup.org. Usual caveats apply.
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social Writer // Critical researcher on cities, racism, borders // PhD from LSE Sociology
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social Curator at Petrie Museum UCL - PhD @LivUni - FSA - Archaeological Ceramicist at Tell el-Amarna - Proud Cumbrian & Honorary Scouser - Scruffy Crafter - Socialist - Gardener - #FirstGen - Views mine
قلبي في السودان ومصر 🇸🇩🇪🇬
Stephanie Boyle @khowagayya.bsky.social Historian, mom, personal assistant to Rocky
Medicine, Egypt and the Delta.
Leonie Reese @aleonier.bsky.social foreign affairs and feminism.
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
@rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social 
Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social Not going to be invited to a UN xmas party any time soon
Senior Lecturer in foreign policy & security at City St George’s, UoL. Historian of UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: http://shorturl.at/aoxzM. she/her
@drsarahphillips.bsky.social @drsarahphillips.bsky.social 
Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌹
Allison West @allisonrwest.bsky.social Senior Legal Advisor @ecchr.bsky.social | Int'l law & human rights politics & praxis, detention & NAWA (MENA), freedom dreams
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Kim Fox, The Podcast Professor @ohradiogirl.bsky.social Journo Prof @AUC@JRMCAUC
Frmer reporter/host @WOSU
2x @scrippsOU alum.
Boards: @AmplifyPodcasts @AUSACE @RadioDocReview
#EhkyYaMasr
http://muckrack.com/kim-fox
EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
@dinaelsharnouby.bsky.social @dinaelsharnouby.bsky.social 
Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway.
International law, armed conflict, accountability, business and human rights.
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Dana Omran @danaomran.bsky.social 
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Philosophy in the modern Islamic world @islamphilonetwork.bsky.social This is the official page of the "Philosophy in the Modern Islamic World" research network, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 
Rebekka Rexhausen @macbexx.bsky.social Interested in #Syria, the #MiddleEast, #ForeignPolicy toward the region, and #sanctions | Assistant Director & Fellow, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG)
From The Periphery Media Collective @fromtheperiphery.com Producers of @thefirethesetimes.com, @mutualaidpod.bsky.social, @syriapodcast.bsky.social, Politically Depressed, and more to come.
Support us: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery
Mariam Ismail @mariamismail.bsky.social Digital Project Coordinator for Virginia Tech Publishing. Digital Scholarship and Online Exhibits. MA in Communications and Advocacy. Former journalist, documentarian, podcaster.
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
ILFU Boeken etc. @ilfu.com All things literature. Festival, Academy, Online magazine. Boeken, verhalen, ideeën. #nachtvandepoezie #boekfest #yalfu #exploringstories • https://ilfu.com/
paulftremlett @paulftremlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Jannis Hagmann @jannishagmann.bsky.social journalist and editor, formerly @taz.de now Qantara.de
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Lea Müller-Funk @leamullerfunk.bsky.social Assistant professor @demigkrems.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe- D Francisco Mazzola @drmazz.bsky.social Lecturer in Middle East Studies, @kcl.ac.uk | PhD in War Studies | Policing in MENA and LatAm | RT≠ endorsement
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social Research Professor at PRIO.
Mostly Palestine, Israel, US related stuff.
Mostly in English, sometimes in Norwegian.
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).
JW Roberts @jwroberts.bsky.social Professor/Chair Politics & IR, Roger Williams University. Spec. in MENA, social movements, political communication, ethnic conflict, games/simulations, & pedagogy. Views my own/RPs ≠ endorsement. He/Him/His
Carolyn Barnett @cbarns.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ University of Arizona SGPP. MENA politics, gender, public opinion, social policy, pol econ of development.
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com
Vanessa Newby @vfnewby.bsky.social Asst Prof | Leiden University | Author of ‘Peacekeeping in South Lebanon’ | International Relations | UN | Gender | WPS | Middle East | Peacekeeping | WIIS Netherlands | CCL | Imm Joudeh | She/Her | Website: vfnewby.com
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
Matt Buehler @mattbuehler.bsky.social Middle East Studies Chair & Associate Professor at University of Tennessee; Editor, Mediterranean Politics; Co-editor, Edinburgh Studies on the Maghreb.
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Amélie Deblauwe @bird-gerhl.bsky.social Egyptologist by training / Cultural heritage photographer working in Cambridge on @theul.bsky.social special collections.
she/her
Naseem Tarawnah @tarawnah.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher. Monitoring cybercrimes and free expression in MENA.
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
Christoph Lange @chrislange.bsky.social just a human and anthropologist trying to understand the bigger picture. Currently working at the research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) at UoC: https://mesh.uni-koeln.de
Valentina Pasquali @valentinapasquali.bsky.social Senior editor for AGBI - Arabian Gulf Business Insight in Washington DC. I cover all-things business, trade, investment and economy linking the Americas to the GCC and larger Middle East and North Africa. 
Huda Akef @hakef.bsky.social Researcher, spreadsheet enthusiast, dreaming of a life on a farm with many dogs.
Stéphanie ᓯ ᑕ ᐸ ᓂ @syrduav.bsky.social Mother, aunt, sister & anthropologist specialized in social justice and decolonization. Trilingual (FR/EN/ES) in Mooniyang/Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Dismantling oppression knows no borders—nor does sarcasm.
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.
Shereen @forsoothsayer.bsky.social 
Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
Amr Magdi @amrmagdi.bsky.social Every act of telling the truth is a stride towards the collective healing of a society, oppressed and oppressors.
أحلامُنا أحلى مِنْ أحلامِهم
Researcher & writer: MENA, Human Rights, Policy.
Magdi.Amr@proton.me
with @HRW.org
Michael Sevel @michaelsevel.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence, University of Sydney. Rule of Law. Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy. Maritime Law.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1315432
Fiat Multipla @fiatmultipla.bsky.social 
Laila Ballout @lballout.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ WSU | Historian of US Foreign Relations, Arab American Politics, Human Rights, Immigration |
Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Dr Micòl Di Teodoro @micsim.bsky.social Egyptologist, Boursière Post-Doctorat at the Université de Liège,
Italian, astronomy enthusiast, in love with nature, geology and dinosaurs, mother of huskies
(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
Anne de Jong @anne-dejong.bsky.social Associate Professor Anthropology| University of Amsterdam| Palestine-Israel| Power & resistance | violence & nonviolence | justice & human rights|
Itxaso Dominguez @itxasdo.bsky.social Incorrigibly curious,eternal nonconformist. Digital Rights @edri + teach&research Critical IR/historic Palestine/SWANA. Here to learn&love. Usual caveats.
Juergen Stryjak – يورجن شترياك @stryjak.bsky.social باب الشعرية Journalist, correspondent, author | @ARDKairo, @Weltreporter | Private Account. Reposts not always endorsed
Eleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net critical refugee studies, Mediterranean migration, testimony, crisis, new project on protection | asst prof @ UOregon
book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/emergency-in-transit/paper
website: https://eleanorbpaynter.net/
Kaitlyn Hashem @kaithashem.bsky.social Writer/editor. Columbia Journalism and Georgetown alumna. Currently writing a book for Bloomsbury about Arabic in the USA titled “A Broken Plural.”
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Laila al-Zwaini @lailazwaini.bsky.social Arabist/jurist | 🇳🇱🇮🇶 | law-shari`a-tribes | Iraq, Yemen, UN Afghanistan | committed to advancing the civil #madaniya movement in the MENA | ❤️coffee&cinema
Natacha Danon @natachadanon.bsky.social Damascus-based journalist telling Syrian stories with eyes on Palestine | Bylines in Syria Direct, New Lines Magazine, Middle East Eye & The New Arab
Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social Senior lecturer International Relations, University of Exeter | IR Global South, foreign policy, conflicts, international recognition, norms and practices, Maghreb, EU-MENA | Views mine
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24733-irene-fernandezmolina
Rusha Latif @rushalatif.bsky.social Researcher and writer with a thing for revolution and movements. Author of “Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution.”
David Scales @tnfalpha.bsky.social Hospitalist, sociologist @WeillCornell studying information environments, contested illness, medical communication
Co-founder, Health for Palestine
he/il/el/هو
Ariane Lavrilleux @arianelavrilleux.com Journalist at @disclose.ngo, in Marseille back from Egypt
🖊️Member AJD @ajdpresse.bsky.social
✊ @prenonslaune.bsky.social & @ofalp.org
👵🏻 Andrée Viollis fan club
Haizam Amirah Fernández @haizamamirah.bsky.social Director ejecutivo del Centro de Estudios Árabes Contemporáneos (CEARC)
www.cearc.net
Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP)
UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel
Kurt Bassuener @kurtbassuener.bsky.social Co-Founder and Senior Associate @DPC_global.bluesky.social; former Fulbrighter - PhD at St. Andrews; Angry Optimist
Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/