James Shotter @jamesshotter.bsky.social Jerusalem Correspondent @financialtimes.com, via Warsaw, Zurich and Frankfurt. All views my own. RT ≠ endorsements. Tips to james.shotter@ft.com
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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
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Adam Baron @adammbaron.bsky.social Former niche social media personality. Baltimorean. Calabrese. Aspiring gadfly.
Future Security Program Fellow, @newamerica.org; Advisor on Yemen and the Gulf, @hdcentre.org; obituary writer, British-Yemeni Society Journal.
Barak Ravid ברק רביד @barakravid.bsky.social Global Affairs Correspondent for Axios. CNN analyst. Washington correspondent for Walla. Author of Trump's Peace
Shamiran Mako @smako.bsky.social Associate professor, comparative politics and IR @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
www.shamiranmako.com
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Kamaran Palani @kamaranpalani.bsky.social Principal Investigator of PeaceRep Iraq programme, LSE Middle East Centre
New Bloom @newbloommag.net New Bloom is an online magazine covering youth culture and politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific.
https://newbloommag.net
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social I write a newsletter about sports! It's called Sports! Link in pinned post
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
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
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social Editor at @newbloommag.net, writes @thediplomat.com @flaminghydra.com, non-resident fellow at University of Nottingham's Taiwan Research Hub, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club board, freelance journalist, translator, DJ. Author of Taipei at Daybreak
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
Rani Abi-Haidar @raniabi.bsky.social History, Political Science & Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and American University Beirut
🌸 migration / postmigrant society / (anti)facism / theory / WANA-Region / memory culture
working at BIM (HU Berlin)
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Vina Nadjibulla @vinanadjibulla.bsky.social Foreign Policy/Geopolitics/China/Indo-Pacific/Vice-President at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Meredith Hindley @mhindley.bsky.social Rogue history Ph.D. Former public servant. World War II, hockey, lipstick, and classic movies. Colorado and Wyoming bred. DC dweller. Author of DESTINATION CASABLANCA (PublicAffairs).
Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social Professional Minneapolis enthusiast. Won a Pulitzer once. She/her.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Fayrouz Ibrahim, Ph.D @drfayrouzibrahim.bsky.social Associate Professor and Art Historian specializing in the Medieval period of the Mediterranean basin, with a focus on sacred art and architecture, material culture, and the early Islamic periods.
Jennifer Lind @proflind.bsky.social Dartmouth prof. IR, East Asia, US foreign policy. Writes at Blueblaze.substack.com. Ask me about my dogs.
Dr Nayana Prakash @nayanaprakash.bsky.social Research fellow @chathamhouse.bsky.social Writer, doctor of the Internet @oiioxford.bsky.social. Interested in tech, society, India, stories, digital culture, literature, people. and dogs 🐕
Currently writing a book. repped by Matthew Marland at RCW 📚📖
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.
Chris Aylett @chrisaylett.bsky.social Research Fellow @chathamhouse focusing on the geopolitics of climate change and the energy transition. Views my own.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/chris-aylett
Header: 'A List of Antagonisms', Hiba Abdallah
Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House |Author of "Deep Connections: the hidden battles to control undersea cables" (Polity, Sep 26) | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, tech sovereignty | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
Nilza Amaral @nilzaamaral.bsky.social Head of Research Operations, Global Governance and Security Centre, Chatham House (@chathamhouse.bsky.social). Down is the new up. Views my own.
Linda Yueh @lindayueh.bsky.social Economist at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford & London Business School
Author of The #GreatCrashes & #GreatEconomists
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/024198808X/
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IG: instagram.com/lindayueh
W: www.lindayueh.com
Joyce Hakmeh @joycehakmeh.bsky.social Deputy Director, International Security, Chatham House
Co-Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Researcher and practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Armida van Rij @armida.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & Senior Nonresident Fellow @global-affairs.bsky.social. Ex-Chatham House & King's College London. European security, foreign policy & politics.
🔗 https://www.cer.eu/personnel/armida-van-rij
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
Travelling Curmudgeon @magicoftravel.bsky.social Travel isn't always as magical as the internet makes it seem, but sometimes it is...
Born in Alaska, raised near Seattle, lived abroad since 2001 (Beirut, Ljubljana, Kuala Lumpur), now travel most of the year.
Currently in Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵
Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social Political Theorist. KCL. Comparative Political Theory. Ancient Chinese Political Thought. From Lebanon.
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
LA Dork @ladork.bsky.social Dorking out on forgotten LA. Alter-ego of Paul Haddad, author of "Inventing Paradise," "Freewaytopia," "10,000 Steps a Day in LA" and other LA tomes.
Tobias Lang @tobiaslang.bsky.social Director Austrian Centre for Peace
ac4p.at
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
Haid Haid @haidhaid22.bsky.social Senior Fellow: Arab Reform Intiative, Chatham House, and ME Council on Global Affairs. | PhD from @warstudies | a Syrian who writes about Syria among other things. RT ≠ endorsements.
Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social bad teams committee
Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in DC. Author of Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico, NYT, The Atlantic.
www.lkfield.com
Also with American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW.
Jenny White @whitejenny.bsky.social Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
CSIS Middle East @mideast.csis.org The CSIS Middle East Program focuses on the drivers of change in the region and is led by Mona Yacoubian. Follows/RTs ≠ endorsements.
Galip Dalay @galipdalay.bsky.social Oxford University, Senior Consulting Fellow @ChathamHouse & NR Senior Fellow @ME_Council
Hussein Ibish @ibishblog.bsky.social Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute (AGSI), weekly columnist for The National, and writer and speaker at large. Former Bloomberg columnist and New York Times regular contributor, now writing a lot for The Atlantic.
Jonathan Spicer @jonathanspicer.bsky.social Journalist and Reuters bureau chief in Turkey. Native of Canada. Views my own 
Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current book project: Palestinians and the New Left in West Germany, 1950s-1980s
John Paul Rathbone @jprathbone.bsky.social FT Turkey bureau chief
Still mainly on Twitter @JP_Rathbone but slowly moving over to here.
Author: "The Sugar King of Havana: the rise & fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's last tycoon"
DMs open
Burcu Ozcelik @burcuozcelik.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Middle East & North Africa Security @ RUSI | PhD, University of Cambridge | Armed Conflict, Extremism, Security, Democratic Theory | Views mine. London-based.
Web: https://rusi.org/people/ozcelik
@rusi.bsky.social
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
danaelkurd.com to contact
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.
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
Hayder Al Shakeri @haydersh.bsky.social Research Fellow @ChathamHouse @CH_MENAP. Cautiously optimistic 🇮🇶 @AUB_Lebanon @SOAS. All views are my own. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
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.
Alicia Medina @aliciamedina.bsky.social Journalist. Managing editor of The Syria Report. 
Jenne Jan Holtland @jjholtland.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent for @volkskrant.nl, based in Amman. Eyes on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen & the Gulf.
Villages over cities. Blueskies in Dutch.
Author "De Koerier van Maputo" (2021): https://tinyurl.com/3v7ekrah
@carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social Director at the New Lines Institute researching military withdrawal, the captagon trade, and security in the Middle East | Adjunct Professor teaching on the crime-conflict nexus at Georgetown University | Past: MENA+Europe Analyst at Geopolitical Futures
Karim 🐦 @karim6.bsky.social Film lover, always trying to make sense of Lebanon through history and politics. Also interested in fluid mechanics, CFD & AI.
📍Lebanon
Syria in Transition @syriatransition.bsky.social A magazine on Syrian politics and society that cuts through the noise. About: https://syriaintransition.com/en/about
Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics
CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) @cidobbarcelona.bsky.social CIDOB is an international affairs think tank that analyses the global issues that affect political & social dynamics, from the international to the local level.
🌍 www.cidob.org
Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social Soviet historian and aficionado of bleeps and bloops. Assistant Professor of Musicology at UW-Madison. Lover of all things Slavic and sonic. Views my own, not my employer’s.
Read some words: www.gabriellecornish.com
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Jeremy Menchik @menchik.bsky.social Professor of IR & Political Science. Director of CURA https://www.bu.edu/cura/. Organizer of www.bit.ly/jewishleft. Scholar of religion, comparative politics, liberalism, pumpkin whoopie pies. https://jeremymenchik.com/
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
Delaney Simon @delaneysimon.bsky.social Senior Analyst, U.S. Program @crisisgroup. Before, UN in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen. New here. Usual caveats. https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/people/delaney-simon
Hélène Sallon @helenesallon.bsky.social Correspondante Moyen-Orient pour @lemondefr / Middle East correspondent for Le Monde. Focus on Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt
Turkish Minute @turkishminute.com News about Turkey
turkishminute.com
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
Liam Knox @liamknox.bsky.social Education reporter at Bloomberg News. Send tips to lknox18@bloomberg.net
David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social Freelance space journalist. British Science Journalist of the Year 2024. Words in The New York Times, Scientific American, New Scientist, BBC, WIRED, + more.
Bangkok, Thailand
jdaoca@gmail.com
@astro_jonny on Twitter
https://www.jonathanocallaghan.com/
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social ✨I'm a former local TV news exec, reporter & producer with a few opinions about the news✨
⚡️Past: @KING5Seattle @WGNMorningNews @WGNNews @WCIA3 @NBC5Chicago @ABC7Chicago
🔥Now: Indistinct Chatter https://jenniferschulze.substack.com/
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
Brendan Schneider @schneiderb.com Every student deserves a school that feels like home.
I help K-12 schools use digital marketing to create those connections, boost visibility, and welcome more families through their doors.
📚 Book: https://amzn.to/3Qim9t2
📖 Blog: schneiderb.com
David E. Sanger @sangernyt.bsky.social White House and National Security Correspondent, The New York Times. CNN contributor. Adjunct lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Khalil Gebara @kgebara.bsky.social Academic, research, and public policy expert. A (non-resilient) Lebanese.
John Mecklin @meckdevil.bsky.social Senior Fellow, former EIC Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Formerly EIC at Pacific Standard, High Country News, SF Weekly, Phoenix New Times. Investigative reporting @ Houston Post. Email: jmecklin@thebulletin.org Tips: Signal to meckdevil.11
James Acton @nuclear-jim.bsky.social Co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. I spend a lot of time thinking about nuclear weapons, advanced nonnuclear technology, and escalation.
Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social Father, husband, citizen, professor, focusing mainly on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy issues. Faculty lead for Harvard's Managing the Atom project: www.belfercenter.org/programs/managing-atom
My website: matthewbunn.scholars.harvard.edu
Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social politics reporter @ Rolling Stone • host of @americanfric.bsky.social • clipping with @snapstream.com • siempre jodiendo 🇲🇽
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signal: Nikkimcr.70
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.
"I could smell the mustard and onions."
Hannah Bloch @hannahbloch.bsky.social Senior editor on NPR’s international desk.
Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social French colonial history; all things Algeria and the Sahel. Also tweets about policy, defense, and sports in that order. 
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.
Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos. https://www.ft.com/content/d5f80bc5-a204-472e-921f-c1f08aa83989?shareType=nongift
Formerly doing various things in Mitteleuropa.
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