Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
Samer Shehata @samershehata.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, Egypt, US foreign policy, authoritarianism & other subjects
Sebnem Gumuscu @sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social Political scientist, studies democratic basksliding, Islamist parties, Turkish politics
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.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com
Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
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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
Vic Tafur @victafur.bsky.social Senior Writer @TheAthletic.
Cover 49ers & NFL. The Fade King of NFL picks. Boxing guy.
“I walk the earth, meet people, get in adventures, like Caine in Kung Fu”
Tashan Reed @tashanreed.bsky.social Commanders reporter at The Washington Post. Host of The Tashan Reed Show. Award-winning journalist. Mizzou and SJI alum. STL. Email: tashanreed1996@gmail.com
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Ted Nguyen @tednguyen.bsky.social Purveyor of truth of the all-22 |King of Typos |NFL Staff Writer:
@TheAthleticNFL |Just Win Podcast
@spacemtn.bsky.social @spacemtn.bsky.social 
Reinoud Leenders @leendersreinoud.bsky.social Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies, King's College London, Department of War Studies. https://www.reinoudleenders.org All views expressed are my own.
Chatham House Middle East and North Africa @chmenap.bsky.social The Middle East and North Africa Programme @chathamhouse.bsky.social | A world-leading centre for analysis, policy research and debate on the MENA region.
🔗 kalam.chathamhouse.org
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Matt Harrington @mattsharrington.bsky.social 
Silvana Toska @stoska.bsky.social Political scientist (MENA and International Security) at Davidson College.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Emotions-Roots-Waves-ebook/dp/B0DHTZNRF4/ref
APSA @apsa.bsky.social The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the leading professional organization for the study of political science.
www.apsanet.org
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Nikola Ilic @nikolailic.bsky.social I teach people & organizations how to practice democracy daily
✊Democratic Leadership Framework
🎓Teach at Georgetown University
🦋Founder of ChangeLab
👉🏻Activism at Volt Europa, World Liberty Congress, Kreni-Promeni
✉️Newslertter: pulseofchange.org
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Kelley Wilson @kelleydwilson.bsky.social Educator
Mom of Two
Literacy Lecturer at App State 💛🖤
Health and Wellness
Emma Soubrier @esoubrier.bsky.social Director of the PRISME Initiative; Associate Researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development at the Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France); also associated with the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University (Boston, U.S.A).
Christopher Phillips @cjophillips.bsky.social Professor of International Relations @QMUL; Assoc Fellow
@ChathamHouse; Mostly tweet about MENA geopolitics, UK Foreign Policy and Aston Villa. Views my own.
Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Hendrik Kraetzschmar (he/him) @hendrik-jk.bsky.social MENA politics, focussing on elections, political parties and coalition governments. Also working on issues of gender/queer politics.
Associate Professor & Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, Uni of Leeds.
Views are my own.
Ben Fordham @benfordham.bsky.social Political science professor at Binghamton University. International relations, especially the political economy of conflict and security, domestic politics and foreign policy, historical social science. Enjoyer of beaches and mountains.- M M Browers @mbrowers.bsky.social
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/
Natan Sachs @natansachs.bsky.social Senior Fellow
Middle East Institute
Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/natansachs
David L. Orvis @davidorvis.bsky.social Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
Alice Baroni 🍉 @alicebaroni.bsky.social Postdoc researcher | Asymmetric solidarity & activism | Coloniality & race relations | Research ethics & reflexivity | Israel/Palestine
Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social VP for Research @CIPolicy. Former @CenturyIntl.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
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.
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him.
Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
Pınar Bilgin @pbilgin.bsky.social 
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.”
Eduard Soler i Lecha @solerlecha.bsky.social Researching, teaching & training. Geopolitics, Foresight, Foreign Poliy, MENA & Turkey. Back at @UABBarcelona
Nabil Al-Tikriti @nabilal-tikriti.bsky.social 
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Nicola Pratt 🇵🇸✌️ @nicolapratt.bsky.social Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East, trade unionist, anti-imperialist, feminist
Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
Marc Kissel @marckissel.bsky.social co-creator of 2 amazing daughters, paleoanthropologist, Assistant professor at AppState in Boone, NC!
Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social Politics Editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Jonathan Weiler @jonweiler.bsky.social Award winning political scientist, also interested in the intersection between sports and politics. Aspiring raconteur. Substack: https://jonathanweiler.substack.com/
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
Rex Brynen @rexbrynen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Middle East politics, peacebuilding, humanitarian response, urban warfare, intelligence, serious games. https://paxsims.wordpress.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.
Andrea Teti @andrea-teti.bsky.social Academic/Author: Democratisation vs Democracy http://t.ly/XhGT; The Arab Uprisings http://t.ly/XWoZ
Assoc. Editor, Middle East Critique https://t.ly/Uln0t
Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social Saudi Arabia and UAE Researcher @HRW • she/her
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joey-shea
Dan Brown @danielpbrownphd.bsky.social Neither *that* Dan Brown, nor *that* Doc Brown.
MENA politics prof at College of Charleston
🇯🇴 🇱🇧 🇵🇸🇮🇱
Likes & RTs mean I'm saving for research later.
Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social Historian & Arabist
Independent analyst on Jihadism, History, Arabic & Islamic Studies
Publications available via https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-1988
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social Professor at GMU. Peace and conflict. And everything in between. Girl mom. Karate, cats and wine lover. 
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Toby Craig Jones @tobycjones.bsky.social Professor, Middle East History, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Gulf, Rutgers University, Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.
www.deensharp.com- 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
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social www.wonkette.com
The Last Blog On the Internet. We ban trolls and Nazis.
@proferenee.bsky.social @proferenee.bsky.social 
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
Shamiran Mako @smako.bsky.social Associate professor, comparative politics and IR @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
www.shamiranmako.com
Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social Writer &c.
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Iona Craig @ionacraig.com Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula since 2010. Once-upon-a-time I trained racehorses.
www.ionacraig.com
www.patreon.com/ionacraig
https://linktr.ee/ionacraig
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).
emily @soupmuse.bsky.social lawyer. human rights and civilian protection. forever Arabic student.
conscientious objector to “AI”
our liberation is bound together.
Taavi Sundell @taavis.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Project MIGDIA (funded by Kone Foundation, hosted by the Finnish Institute in the Middle East & University of Helsinki)
David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
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
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
Fiona McCallum Guiney @fmccallumguiney.bsky.social Professor in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Researches on religion, migration, diaspora and minorities
Kimberly Katz @kbkatz0710.bsky.social Historian, Middle East, Palestine, Jordan, Human Rights
Nermin Allam @nerminallam.bsky.social Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
The Camel's Nose @thecamelsnose.bsky.social Professorial Lecturer in Political Science and Policy Analyst in Washington, DC. Comparative/IR. Middle East, Arab Gulf States, Iran, Israel. Gender, Tribes, Ethnic Politics.
Yasmina Abouzzohour @yabouzzohour.bsky.social Princeton University Research Scholar & Lecturer | Public opinion, civil–military & political behavior | MENA→comparative | PhD, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford
Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
Hannes Baumann @hannesbaumann.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
Jan Daniel @horalistani.bsky.social Researcher @IIR_Prague; fellow @prcprague; Lebanon, Syria, critical peace and security studies, security narratives, social theory
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.