Middle East Policy Council @mideastpolicy.bsky.social MEPC provides credible, comprehensive information & analysis on political, economic, and cultural issues pertaining to U.S.-Middle East relations.
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Banafsheh Keynoush بنفشه کی نوش @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social Affiliate Faculty Uni of Notre Dame. Int. Geopolitical Consultant. Author: Abraham Accords; Saudi Arabia & Iran; .... Center liberal bridge builder. Stream soliloquy.
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
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
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Gordon Gray @ambgordongray.bsky.social Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Former career diplomat. RPCV Morocco. Re-posts ≠ endorsements.
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Jörg Matthias Determann @determann.bsky.social Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Author of “Teaching Science Through Science Fiction” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy.” https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
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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 🇪🇺
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Jessie Moritz @jessiemoritz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, specialising in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf political economy & sustainable development
Johanna Söderström @jsoderstrom.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Department of Government, Uppsala University. Post-war politics, relational peace, state-building, taxation, veterans, focus groups, life history interviews, supervision, solidarity, Liberia, Namibia, Colombia, USA +++
Dr Sara Ratner @sararatner.bsky.social University of Oxford
AI in Education | Policy | Pedagogy
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Dr. Theodore Karasik @tkarasik.bsky.social 
Ondrej Beranek @onber.bsky.social Senior researcher @ the Middle East Department, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences | Middle East | History | Islamic studies
Mate Szalai @mszalai.bsky.social Researcher, Gulf region & Middle East
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Dr Tallha Abdulrazaq @drtalabdulrazaq.bsky.social Expert commentator & scholar of the Middle East and military affairs. Bylines: WaPo | Al Jazeera | Middle East Institute and many others.
IMES @ GW @imes-gw.bsky.social Institute for Middle East Studies | The George Washington University
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Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) @memri.org Bridging the language gap between the West and the Middle East & South Asia - and beyond
Gedaliah Afterman @gafterman.bsky.social Head, Asia Policy Program, Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy & Foreign Relations, Reichman University | Fellow, CASSIS, University of Bonn | China, Middle East, Asia, Superpower competition, Tech Middle Powers. 
Andrea Cellino @andreaterenzio.bsky.social Vice president, Middle East Institute Switzerland, Executive-in-Residence GCSP - security governance #Libya #Tunisia #Morocco #Algeria #MENA #Ukraine #Eurasia - usual caveats
PRISME @prismeorg.bsky.social Pathways to Renewed and Inclusive Security in the Middle East - Initiative directed by Emma Soubrier with the the World Peace Foundation (Tufts University in Boston, US) and the Institute for Peace and Development (Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, France).
Karim Elgendy @karimelgendy.bsky.social Director of @carboun.bsky.social, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Middle East Institute. 🔭 Energy Geopolitics and Climate Diplomacy in the Middle East and East Med.
Eckart Woertz @eckartwoertz.bsky.social Director GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, professor at University of Hamburg
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@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
Bitte Hammargren @bitteham.bsky.social Partly retired - but part time still Middle East & Turkey analyst. Writer & journo. Senior Associate at the Swedish Institute of Int’l Affairs, UI.se. Ex FOI.se analyst and ex SvD.se correspondent. Likes and RTs not always endorsements. bittehammargren.com
Mary Fitzgerald @maryfitzger.bsky.social Researching Libya and wider Mediterranean.
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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de Area studies and comparative area studies on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Global Affairs from Hamburg, Germany.
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Dara Conduit @daraconduit.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne | Digital Authoritarianism | Syria | Iran | Author of The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria | She/Her
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Karim Émile Bitar @karimbitar.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
Ned Price @nedprice.bsky.social The personal account of a recidivist public servant — most recently Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and State Department Spokesperson. Previously with NSC and CIA.
Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
Stephen Pomper @stevepomper.bsky.social Chief of Policy @CrisisGroup.org. Formerly NSC senior director for human rights + UN affairs and State Department assistant legal adviser for pol-mil issues. 
James Gibney @jamesgibney.bsky.social editor at @opinion.bsky.social, ex-Atlantic, NYT, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, US Department of State, TNR, Wilson Quarterly, TWM. Seeking knowledge, entertainment, bad puns...Opinions my own.
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
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Uma Kumaran MP @umakumaran.bsky.social 🌹Labour MP for Stratford and Bow
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Blair McDougall MP @blairmcdougall.com Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire. Member of Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Chair of Hong Kong & Uyghur APPGs. Sanctioned by Putin for being rude to him. Contact me at blair.mcdougall.mp@parliament.uk https://linktr.ee/blairmcdougall
Emily Thornberry MP @emilythornberry.bsky.social Labour MP for Islington South, Finsbury & De Beauvoir.
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
https://www.emilythornberry.com
Global Studies Quarterly @gsqjournal.bsky.social Global Studies Quarterly (GSQ) is the International Studies Association’s fully open access journal. Editors-in-Chief: Brent J. Steele & Jelena Subotic
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CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org A bipartisan research institution, CSIS is recognized as the top defense and national security think tank in the world.
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Wilf King @wilfking.bsky.social Head of Office for Barry Andrews MEP | Interested in EU Politics, Energy, Middle-East and EU-UK Relations
Patrick Sykes @patsykes.bsky.social Energy and Middle East news at Bloomberg in Istanbul.
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Jeannie Sowers @jlsowers.bsky.social Professor of political science and international affairs, Univ of New Hampshire. Middle East and environmental politics. My views are my own.
Jeroen Gunning @jeroengunning.bsky.social People. Politics. Movements – Professor of Middle East Politics. King’s College London. RT ≠ necessarily endorsement
Jonathan Cristol @jonathancristol.bsky.social I teach Middle East Politics, International Security, International Law, WMD (and stuff like that) at YU. Write about East Asia and Middle East. Ex-think-tanker. Occasional contractor. New to this platform. Love a good parenthetical aside. NYC based.
Dominic Dudley @dominicdudley.bsky.social Journalist, mostly writing and editing about politics and economics in the Middle East and Africa. Short stories, photos etc sometimes emerge too.
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.
Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
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John Bowker @johnhbowker.bsky.social Bloomberg Editor - covering Middle East and North Africa politics and economics. Also johnhbowker on Letterboxd if you like films.
Previously in Johannesburg, Moscow 
Jędrzej Czerep @jedrzejczerep.bsky.social Head of Middle East and Africa Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). African politics, society, culture.
Aslı Peker @aslipeker.bsky.social NYU prof, teaching and research in comparative and regional politics, statecraft, Middle East pols, critical security studies.
Matthew Doran @matthewdoran1.bsky.social Middle East correspondent for ABC News Australia, based in Jerusalem. Former federal politics reporter. Proud South Australian. Wine and cheese fan. All views etc my own. No one else would want them anyway.
Debra Shushan @drshushan.bsky.social Middle East policy. Senior Resident Affiliate, Georgetown Center for Jewish Civilization. Yale PhD. Former J Street Director of Policy. Subscribe to The Debrief with Debra Shushan https://drshushan.substack.com/
James Worrall @jamesworrall.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies @ the University of Leeds. Specialist in the Gulf and Levant, Conflict, Order, Global Governance etc.
Co-Editor Civil Wars
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/112/dr-james-worrall
Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social Senior lecturer of international relations at Bristol University.
IR theory and Middle East politics: f.dionigi@bristol.ac.uk.
https://t.co/CGcAdQY3Dz
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Professor at Political Science, Aarhus University
🔍 International Relations | Middle East | social movements | sectarianism | labour | diaspora | focus on 🇱🇧, 🇮🇶 and 🇪🇺.
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/
Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
Curtis Ryan @curtisryan.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University. IR. Middle East politics. Music fanatic. A bit too obsessed with Jordan and with Arab and Middle East alliances and politics.
Section Chair, APSA Middle East and North African Politics section.
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
Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social Scholar, mother, dancer, boxer, home chef, and lover of cocktails, hard core, and dark chocolate; Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Middle East politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
APSA MENA Politics Section @apsamena.bsky.social Official account of the APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics Organized Section. apsanet.org/section49
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.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Jonathan M. Winer @jonathanmwiner.bsky.social Former Senate counsel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Special Envoy, now Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute. Write about law & politics, national & global security, Middle East, financial crime, cross-border issues.
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.
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.
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.
Giorgio Cafiero @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social CEO of DC-based Gulf State Analytics • Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University • Adjunct Fellow at American Security Project • SME Gulf States • Public Trust Contractor 
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Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Primarily on LinkedIN.
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