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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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Ken Roth @kennethroth.bsky.social Former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022). Now visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public & Int'l Affairs. My book “Righting Wrongs” (Knopf/Allen Lane).- J Joel Blaxland @jjb5145.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science @WNMU.
Ramona Wadi @ramonawadi.bsky.social Freelance journalist & book reviewer writing about Palestine & Latin America; the latter focusing on Chile, Cuba & Argentina.
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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social Writer, human rights lawyer, ex Program Director @hrw.org, author of מקלובה-אהבה הפוכה & Umm Forat blog (www.ummforat.com), cofounder of gisha.org, ultramarathoner, lover of freedom of movement in Gaza and beyond.
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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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books
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Hugh Lovatt @hlovatt.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations.
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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
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice. Ex-@theindependent @amnesty @hrw @freedomfromtorture
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Politics and Rights Review @polrightsrev.bsky.social A trilingual, open-access journal making recent research in human and social sciences accessible to a global audience. Visit us at: https://politicsrights.com
Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social Scholar @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Islamicate Affect/Emotion, Sufism, Iran, DH, Academic Labor. Author: Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism. President @local6741.bsky.social; Part of @uam-umd.bsky.social, @aaup.org, @aft.org. Piscataway Land.
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Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
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Zaha Hassan @zaha-hassan.bsky.social Writer, human rights attorney, and political analyst and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Afrah Nasser @afrahnasser.bsky.social Non-resident fellow @ArabCenterWDC. Recipient of the Committee to Protect Journalists' International @pressfreedom Award. Former @hrw #Yemen researcher. 
Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social Saudi Arabia and UAE Researcher @HRW • she/her
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Rawya Rageh @rawya.bsky.social Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1.bsky.social Executive Director of @dawnmenaorg; former head of HRW's Middle East North Africa Division.
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man @omerman.bsky.social Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. Bygone journalist.└A expat. Former ed-in-chief at +972 Magazine. All views my own...for now.
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
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