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Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
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Zaid Al-Ali @zalali.bsky.social Senior Adviser on constitutions @Int_IDEA. Teach at @Princeton. Author of books on Iraq + on Arab constitutions. Former @wiko_berlin @Harvard_Law @UNIraq @KingsCollegeLon
Mary Fitzgerald @maryfitzger.bsky.social Researching Libya and wider Mediterranean.
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Lahib Higel @lahibhigel.bsky.social Interim Deputy Director, MENA. International Crisis Group.
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Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social War Studies, King’s College London. Researcher of war-to-peace transitions, civil wars, corruption, elite bargains, statebuilding, and UK foreign policy. Trustee at Conciliation Resources. Defender of democracy. Padel enthusiast.
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Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics
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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Ziad Daoud @ziaddaoud.bsky.social Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg. Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Views are mine. 
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
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Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social VP for Research @CIPolicy. Former @CenturyIntl.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
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Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social CRIA is a peer-reviewed journal based at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Edited by @AlkTaif and @Connorpobrien. 
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Ruth Townend @ruthtownend.bsky.social Politically feasable pathways to 'adequate' public climate action with @cast-centre.bsky.social. Formerly @chathamhouse.org host of The Climate Briefing podcast. Research nerd, climate geek, parent to two glorious little women. All views my own.
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
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David Lubin @davidlubin.bsky.social I’m the Michael Klein Senior Research Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House. Formerly I was head of emerging markets economics research at Citi.
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