Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) @protestinstitut.bsky.social Netzwerkinstitut - zusammen forschen wir zu Protesten und sozialen Bewegungen (seit 2012) | Nur auf Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook und YouTube! | website: protestinstitut.eu email: info@protestinstitut.eu
Thomas Richter @thomaserichter.bsky.social Lead Research Fellow @giga-hamburg.de
Head of GIGA's Research Programme "Accountability and Participation"
Honorary Professory @leuphana.bsky.social
Co-Speaker @dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social
KriSol @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social https://krisol-wissenschaft.org/
Andrés López Rivera @andreslr.bsky.social Research Associate at Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Global Climate Governance | Knowledge Politics | Transformative Technologies
Katrin Kleemann @katrinkleemann.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Maritime Museum/Leibniz Institute for Maritime History. Environmental historian working on volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, history of science, and of course #Laki1783🌋🇮🇸.
www.katrinkleemann.com
Thies Niemeier @thiesnie.bsky.social PhD-student of International Political Economy, specifically Economic Sanctions.
https://sites.google.com/view/thies-niemeier/
David S. Meyer @davidsmeyer.bsky.social sociology and political science prof./ author/ swimmer/ dad
Sophia Birchinger @birchinger.bsky.social Researcher I PhD Candidate I Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) I 🎯African Intervention Politics, Peace Operations, Coercion, Bottom-Up Theorizing I 📍The Gambia/Guinea-Bissau
Mikhail Polianskii @polianskii.bsky.social PhD @goetheuni.bsky.social; Post-Doctoral Researcher at @prif.org
PATTERN Project (https://www.prif.org/en/research/projects/pattern). Russian Foreign Policy, Post-Soviet Space, European Security, Cold War History
Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu @fabriziol.bsky.social Currently at Dublin City University.
Research on security, development, migration and diasporas, everyday politics.
Photography enthusiast, occasional runner.
He/him
Laura Stritzke @laurastritzke.bsky.social Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
VORTEX doctoral network
Concerned with civic education, prevention of extremism
Joshua Farrell-Molloy @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social MSCA PhD Candidate in Global Political Studies at Malmö University @vortex-europe.bsky.social IR, digital subcultures, extremism, foreign fighters.
Words: https://gnet-research.org/author/joshua-molloy/
Felix Roßmeißl @felixross.bsky.social Soziologe | Interessiert an: Gewalt, Religion, Zukunft und materialistischer Kultur- und Gesellschaftskritik
Buch: Dschihadisten. Junge Männer in einer totalen Subkultur https://tinyurl.com/mt5vzpxw
Heidi Reichinnek, MdB @heidireichinnek.dielinkebt.de Co-Spitzenkandidatin Die Linke zur #BTW25.
Co-Vorsitzende Die Linke im Bundestag.
Antifaschistin.
Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social #OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de publishing original research on politics, societies, and economics in Africa @sagepub.com.
Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com, @marthacj.bsky.social & Dr. Kendra Dupuy
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
Campact e.V. @campact.de Campact ist eine Kampagnen-Organisation, mit der über 4,5 Millionen Menschen entschlossen für progressive Politik eintreten und unsere Demokratie verteidigen. Impressum: http://bit.ly/1gqravN Datenschutz: http://campact.org/some
Megatrends Afrika @megatrends-afrika.de Research and policy advice on the effects of megatrends in Africa. We are a joint project by Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Kiel Institute).
Saša Stanišić @sasastanisic.bsky.social Schriftsteller divreser Werke!
@nilslukacs.bsky.social @nilslukacs.bsky.social
Hubert Zimmermann @hubzimm.bsky.social Prof IR @ uni-Marburg; Struggling upwards
Thomas Claes @tclaes.bsky.social @fesonline.bsky.social working on Western Africa, economy and Decent Work, debt and development
Miriam Prys-Hansen @mjph.bsky.social Lead Research Fellow at @giga-hamburg.de, Political Scientist and International Relations scholar, #BRICS, #SouthAsia, #climate. Feminist, mom, aspiring triathlete and knitter.
zenith @zenith.me Deutschlands führendes Magazin zu Nahost, Maghreb und der muslimischen Welt. Jetzt Club-Mitglied werden: http://bit.ly/2oclwlC
Sophie Frühwald @sophiefrhwld.bsky.social Evangelische Theologin. Doktorandin. Sozi.
📍 Marburg
Daniel Gerlach @danielgerlach.bsky.social Director general of Candid Foundation, Editor in chief of zenith Magazine zenith.me Author and occasional television host. Interested in international and Middle East Affairs. Opinions are my own.
Shreya Parikh شريا پریکھ @shreya-parikh.bsky.social Dual PhD political science & sociology CERI-SciencesPo and UNC
✍🏾 on blackness-arabness
teaching: race, migration, citizenship in MidEast+Africa at Sciences Po
On Twitter @shreya_parikh
Guy Robert Eyre @guyeyre.bsky.social Post-Doc, Alwaleed Centre, Edinburgh University
TraCe @trace-center.de Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” | collaboration of @prif.org, @goetheuni.bsky.social, @tuda.bsky.social, @jlugiessen.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social. Funded by the BMFTR.
https://www.trace-center.de/
Johannes Schmitthenner @richtennach.bsky.social Thinking about Islam, Marxism, Philosophy, Economy, few other things
Lars Wiegold @lwiegold.bsky.social Extreme Rechte | Extremismus | Social Media | Online-Gaming
@priforg
Liska Suckau @liskasuckau.bsky.social Researcher at PRIF
DIY military technologies, military innovation, gender and war
latest: https://tinyurl.com/UGVsLimitsOfAutonomy
Thorsten Bonacker @tbonacker.bsky.social Professor for Peace & Conflict Studies @Center for Conflict Studies U Marburg * Research & teaching international statebuilding, United Nations in decolonisation, postwar justice, political violence * SFB 138: Dynamics of Security
Nabil Ferdaoussi @nabilferdaoussi.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow @humauct.bsky.social| University of Cape Town| Anthropology of Bordes and Migration| North and West Africa
IEMed_Barcelona @iemed.bsky.social European Institute of the Mediterranean. A #thinktank on #Euro_Mediterranean relations. Coord. EuroMeSCo, Spanish Anna Lindh Foundation and MedThink 5+5 networks
Abdullatif Sleibi @asleibi.bsky.social Senior Data Analyst at PAX - MENA Researcher
Lisa Wessel @liser.bsky.social Researching Social Movements & Climate Crisis @Goethe Uni || Mediator
Shimaa ElSharkawy @shimaasharkawy.bsky.social I do political science for a living, doctoral student of Poli. sci. passionate about cities, urban politics, and literature.
Sebastian Haunss @sehaunss.bsky.social Professor, Political Science, SOCIUM, University of Bremen. Protest, Social Movements, and CSS
Roger Mac Ginty @rogermacginty.bsky.social Peace
Professor, Durham University
Dogs and old stuff.
I block anonymous no-name accounts
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
Jannis Hagmann @jannishagmann.bsky.social journalist and editor, formerly @taz.de now Qantara.de
@research-ethics.bsky.social @research-ethics.bsky.social
Edward Dove @edwardsdove.bsky.social Professor of Law, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/edward-dove
Editor, International Data Privacy Law: https://academic.oup.com/idpl
Areas of interest: medical law and health privacy law
Julia Köbrich @juliakoebrich.bsky.social Research Fellow @giga-hamburg.de and PhD candidate @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social researching determinants of intergroup contact, interreligious relations, and peacebuilding.
ZeFKo | Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung @journalzefko.bsky.social ZeFKo Studies in Peace and Conflict | im Auftrag der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung | zefko@afk-web.de | https://afk-web.de/herausgeberschaften/zefko/
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
Monika Bolliger @monikabolliger.bsky.social Leiterin Global @republik.ch & Middle East Nerd, früher @SRF @derspiegel @SanaaCenter @NZZ
Alexander Lohse @lohseale.bsky.social Political Scientist (IR, Middle Eastern Studies), Science Management, PhD-ing on Status-seeking of UAE @UniMarburg
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social Prof. of Research on Far-Right Extremism @IRex/UniTübingen; researching far-right political actors & ideologies; PhD from @Cambridge_Uni; member of DeJongeAkademie @KNAW 📚
Eviane Leidig @evianeleidig.com Director of Research & Outreach, Center for the Study of Organized Hate @csohate.bsky.social
Expert on hate & extremism, online harms & tech regulation
💻 evianeleidig.com
Joana Cook @joanacook.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Terrorism and Political Violence, ISGA, Leiden University l Adjunct at Johns Hopkins University. I research terrorism and counter-terrorism www.joanacook.com
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Julia Grauvogel @grauvogelj.bsky.social Senior research fellow
@GIGA_Institute, interested in sanctions, authoritarianism, African politics, feminist & food lover
Houssein A. Al Malla @housseinalmalla.bsky.social 🤓 Research Fellow @GIGA_Institute @UniHamburg
👨🏻💻 Senior Research Fellow @Lebanese American University
🌍 Research on everything Foreign Policy Analysis, IR, Sanctions & Pol Psychology
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/al-malla-houssein/
Jonas Schaaf @jonschaaf.bsky.social African non-military conflict intervention practices @prif.org | SLE year of 2021
Philipp Wagner @philippwa.bsky.social PhD researcher at ABI Freiburg
Energy, climate, infrastructures, political participation in the EU & MENA (esp. Tunisia)
Mina Trpkovic @trpkovicm.bsky.social Curious about international politics, political communication & social science methods | Doctoral Researcher @PRIF.org
Nasef @theegyptianhulk.bsky.social Host of @TahrirPodcast—Egypt & Middle East affairs. Research & Editorial @APSNtweets/@alSalonReviews. @AUC & @UNC Alum.- I @iswerenfelsi.bsky.social @iswerenfelsi.bsky.social Focuses on the Maghreb.Views are my own
Kerem Schamberger @keremschamberger.bsky.social Mensch & Kommunist & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zu Flucht & Migration bei medico international
Dr. Rosa Burç @rosaburc.bsky.social political sociologist who works and writes on movements, violence, statelessness, transnational racism & solidarity.
SOAS alumna
Mira Demirdirek @mirademirdirek.bsky.social Research fellow @Giga-hamburg.de |
PhD candidate @unituebingen.bsky.social |
mainly working on Turkey-Africa relations
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Yassin Musharbash @abususu.bsky.social Arabist, Journalist, Author.
Threema ID: EJJEXVPF
Nahla El-Menshawy @nahlael.bsky.social PhD researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt working on trust and Yemeni diaspora.
Forever in a grumpy mood. Fed up by colonial epistemologies.
I won’t hold back here.
Peter Ullrich @textrecycling.bsky.social Soziologie, Antisemitismus- und Nahostdebatten, Protest und Polizei, akademischer Kapitalismus. Intradisziplinäre Interpretationselite (c)
@ TU Berlin @ HWR Berlin
Luíza Cerioli @lucerioli.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at University of Kassel - Extractivism.de.
A Brazilian in Europe.
Here you find an unbalanced potpourri of Global IR, Middle Eastern and Latin American foreign policy, extractivism and energy transition, cinema and cats.
Roy Karadağ @roykaradag.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher & Academic Director at InIIS (@iniis.bsky.social), University of Bremen
interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
at Freie Universität Berlin • conflict & violence • justice & accountability • research ethics & safety
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Carnegie Middle East Center @carnegiemec.bsky.social Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center provides informed policy research & analysis on the challenges facing the Middle East & North Africa. RT≠endorsement
Jessie Moritz @jessiemoritz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, specialising in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf political economy & sustainable development
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
René Wildangel @realwildangel.bsky.social History PhD, EU-MENA, Human Rights, Writer, former Adjunct lecturer http://ihu.edu.gr - former head Böll-Foundation
Palestine/Jordan, alumni ECFR, GMF, ZEIT Bucerius. Back in Berlin from Thessaloniki.
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
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
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
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
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Lamis Abdelaaty @labdelaaty.bsky.social Assoc Prof of PoliSci • IR, Refugees • labdelaa.expressions.syr.edu • she/her • Views own, etc.
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | your old millennial friend | local politics | palestine | states, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | will strive to listen
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
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
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Researching political violence & the inner workings of dictatorships
https://felixhaass.de/
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social Lecturer at SOAS. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate for the Center of the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Former USIP Peace Scholar.
Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida.
www.salahbenhammou.com