César Guzmán-Concha @guzmancesar9.bsky.social Assistant professor at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence (IT); researcher of the Center of Social Movements Studies, COSMOS. Opinions my own
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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.
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Siyanda 🐼 @siyandawrites.bsky.social Woefully ungovernable and pathologically optimistic. Writer, Satirist & Sociologist. I used to be big on Twitter but I refuse to tango with the devil so here I am! Let’s dance 💃🏾
Susila Gurusami @susila-gurusami.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, & Justice, author of Break the System: Criminalized Black Mothers and the Reproductive Politics of Abolition (UChicago Press, 2026)
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Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social Sociologist at Loyola University Chicago
Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
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Shahd Hammouri @shahdhm.bsky.social Lecturer in International Law at Kent Law School. Upcoming: Corporate War Profiteering and International Law
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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Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social (all pronouns welcome, but please don’t ma’am me)
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@standuprecords.bsky.social- 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.
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Solafa Magdy @solafamagdy.bsky.social Mother | Exiled Journalist | @Paris Citizenship 2020 | Courage in Journalism Winner 2020 @IWMF | Ex. Fellow @TimepDC |
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Abdelrahman ElGendy @elgendy95.bsky.social Preorder HUNA: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming; forthcoming from Hogarth, Penguin Random House on Sep 1, 2026.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
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omnia khalil أمنية خليل @omniakhalil.bsky.social Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Kareem Rabie @kareemrabie.bsky.social Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
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https://www.dukeupress.edu/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited
Scott Long @scottlong1980.bsky.social He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
Mohammad El Taher @eltaher.xyz Co-founder @masaar.net .
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org Founded in 1934 by immigrant refugees in New York City. Carrying the torch of academic freedom and mapping the landscape of intellectual thought at @thenewschool.bsky.social. | socres.org
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
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Gohary @ircpresident.bsky.social Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. @GlobalVoices.org Services Lead and Board Member. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering. Find me at https://mohamedelgohary.com
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MichaelRMuñiz @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social 🇵🇷 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Author of Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton University Press).
Maged Mandour @magedmandour.bsky.social An Egyptian who writes about Egypt , among other things. Author Egypt under El-Sisi, now available.
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Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East 
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Basma Mostafa @basmamostafa.bsky.social Journalist in exile, voice from the margins | Fighting censorship with stories. https://basmamostafa.carrd.co/
بسمة الحسيني @basma22.bsky.social الأمين العام السابق لاتحاد نافخي القرب المقطوعة
Zhifan Luo @zhifan-luo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @McMaster University | Media, power, and computational social science.
Gasser Abdel-Razek جاسر عبد الرازق @gasser-abdelrazek.bsky.social Rights worker/Consultant
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Amr Khairy @amrkhairy.bsky.social مؤرخ - PhD in Environmental History
Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine and Human Shields
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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social Jacobin liefert sozialistische Perspektiven auf Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur. Abonniere jetzt unser Printmagazin 👉 http://jacobin.de/abo
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
Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore | Co-founder & advocacy officer at EgyptWide | working on activism and civil society in the Mediterranean region, BHR (arms trade, energy).
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Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social Lawyer, PhD candidate @TCDLawSchool Researching Counterterrorism Laws & Fundamental Rights| Focus: Emergencies, Constitutional Theory & HRL (Global South Critique)
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social Books: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | SURVIVING THE LONG WARS | Writing: BREATHING IN COMMON | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟. Personal account.
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025) • omarcheta.com
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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.
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Michael Jin @michaelrjin.bsky.social historian. teacher. michaelrjin.com 
Ahmed @aabollo.bsky.social Ph.D. in progress | Egyptian | Interested in Virtue Ethics, Environmental Justice, Moral Psychology, Stoicism, & Sufism | Cooking and Classical Arabic music keep me grounded.
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
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
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Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social Professor at GMU. Peace and conflict. And everything in between. Girl mom. Karate, cats and wine lover. - T Tamer Mowafy @tamowafy.bsky.social
A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social Author - *Bans, Walls, Raids, #Sanctuary* on #abolition and #migrant justice. *Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps Since WWII* on #imprisonment regimes under US #empire. #freepalestine #borderabolition www.naomipaik.com
ASA SKAT @asaskat.bsky.social Official presence of Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) Section, A Section of the American Sociological Association
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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social Sociology prof @ Florida International University, senior research associate @ University of Johannesburg, author of Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford UP, 2022), editor of Spectre, deputy editor of City & Community
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