Out of Eden Walk @outofedenwalk.social Out of Eden Walk is a 42,000 kilometer walk across the world in the footsteps of our ancestors. Led by Nat Geo Explorer and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek. Follow along with Paul's dispatches from the trail at www.outofedenwalk.org
Paul Salopek @paulsalopek.social 
MERICS @merics.bsky.social The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) is a European research and analysis institute established in 2013.
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Caitlin Dickerson @caitlindickerson.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and feature writer at
@theatlantic via @nytimes & @npr. Cdickerson@theatlantic.com.
Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social Host: Government That Doesn't Suck
PoliSci Prof. Official Congress e-news DB: DCinbox.com & CB8 member. Book on Parenting, Politics and Civic Ed (HowtoRaiseaCitizen.com), Political Communications & Electoral Systems.
https://dcinboxinsights.substack.com/
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
Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
Niko Kelbakiani @nikokelbakiani.bsky.social Journalist @BBCMonitoring.
Covering Iran and its relations with the Middle East, Caucasus and Russia.
Mary Shelley’s Fluoxetine @crabapplejones.bsky.social Trad tradwife (i.e. running an illegal gin operation from the root cellar)
Women's Learning Partnership @learningpartnership.org Transforming power relations and promoting peace by strengthening gender justice movements through our Partnership of women's rights organizations in the Global South. 
Syria Notes @syrianotes.org Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability.
Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908
Cheyanne Mumphrey @cheymumph.bsky.social National Education Reporter at the Associated Press
Former Journalism Instructor at Arizona State University
📧 cmumphrey@ap.org | DM for Signal | Loves 🗞&🐶
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
Jean Hardouin-Dompnier @jeanhd.eurosky.social Archiviste aux @ArchivesnatFr. - Archives présidentielles, histoire des relations internationales, monde iranien : compte personnel.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social Views are my own, or somebody else's
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
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.
Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk 🎥Executive Producer @ajplus.net
🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011
🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni
✍️ Social justice | Arab World
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
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.
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم @fadahjassem.bsky.social Head of Data Visualisation 📊@TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi
#Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists)
(Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social A Syrian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with 20+ years’ experience, founder of the Prisons Museum. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
https://amermatar.com
https://prisons.museum
https://linktr.ee/amer.mattr
Tim Shenk @tim.doctorswithoutborders.org Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA. Based in NYC and internationally focused. Opinions my own.
@doctorswithoutborders.org
Reese Dunklin @reesedunklin.bsky.social Reporter, editor, data analyst, FOIA | @ProPublica now. Formerly @AP, @dallasnews | Signal: ReeseD.8117 | Not really on this site so don’t expect a response
Lilli Tnaib @lillitnaib.bsky.social Strategic communications and outreach focusing on refugees and humanitarian issues. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.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
Hrvoje Hranjski @hhranjski.bsky.social 
Tim Rivera @timrivera.bsky.social Senior Advisor, World Learning | Security Fellow, Truman Project | Affiliate @aueuropecenter.bsky.social | Used to work for 🇪🇺&🇬🇧 | Me = 🇺🇸+🇵🇷+🏳️🌈 | Believe in the power of education, exchange, & travel | All views expressed are my own
Svetlana Shkolnikova @svetashko.bsky.social Covering Congress + beyond for @starsandstripes.bsky.social 🪖
Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social Covering humanitarian crises and emergency response in @UNICEF.org global press office in New York City | https://jenglishcommunications.com/expert-commentary.html
Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social Legal Correspondent at Business Insider. Author of zero books. Jayshams.substack.com
@abrinker.bsky.social @abrinker.bsky.social 
Bente Scheller @bentescheller.bsky.social Specializes in Foreign & Security Policy, Middle East and particularly Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan. Author of The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game. FP under the Assads. Posts my own.
Danny Hajjar @dannyghajjar.bsky.social 🇱🇧
Journalist covering Arabic music
Co-host of the Shik Shak Shook Ones podcast
Bylines: NYTimes, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, The Grammys, Billboard Arabia, GQ Middle East
https://www.dannyhajjar.com
Robert Rosendal @robertrosendal.bsky.social 👀 Initiator transitieplatform @kunstenlandschap.bsky.social 👀 Docent Ned./Maatschappijleer | Uitgever | Publicist | Acteur 👀 Organisatie | Communicatie | Media | Publiciteit | Onderwijs | Muziektheater | IJsland(ers) 👀 https://www.rosendalprodukties.nl
Philatrope @philatrope.bsky.social Mother, doctor, reader, wonderer about things.
This being human is a guest house… welcome and entertain them all.
Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social Deputy national politics editor at The Washington Post. Contact: fenitn.33 on Signal; fenit.nirappil@washpost.com
@kimberly-johnson.bsky.social @kimberly-johnson.bsky.social 
Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social Freelance journalist writing about stocks, personal finance, banking, tech and energy. Formerly at TheStreet. Proud Purdue grad and lover of rescue animals and random acts of kindness. Houstonian.
Hawke-ish @thehawke.bsky.social I resist things that are wrong.
Environmental comms.
Solo parent, journalist, lawyer.
Formerly with DOI, NPR, NRDC.
Born in DC
*You’re smart. Now, say it in a way anyone can understand.*
@julianpecquet.bsky.social @julianpecquet.bsky.social 
Suzanne Maloney @suzannemaloney.bsky.social VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
zenith @zenith.me Deutschlands führendes Magazin zu Nahost, Maghreb und der muslimischen Welt. Jetzt Club-Mitglied werden: http://bit.ly/2oclwlC
Kate Loomis @kate-loomis.bsky.social 
Dan Shapiro @danielbshapiro.bsky.social Former US Ambassador to Israel, Defense Dept., State Dept., NSC. Working toward a secure, integrated, peaceful Middle East. Devoted Cubs fan.
Lili Pike @lilipike.bsky.social China & climate reporter @bloomberg.com
Sophia Bollag @sophiabollag.bsky.social California politics reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Reach me at sophia.bollag@sfchronicle.com
Emily Wagster Pettus @ewagsterpettus.bsky.social Editor in Chief @mississippitoday.org. Former @ap. Cat person. German speaker but likely to mess up der/die/das usw.
Jeff Kleinman @jeffkleinman.bsky.social Miami Herald | consumer team editor
💵Health | Shopping | Travel | Real estate
📝Story sculptor, Clarity clinician
🍊Florida man, Mr. 305, Family guy
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
@cmmcd.bsky.social @cmmcd.bsky.social Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Churchill 1947
Evan DeSimone @mediaevan.bsky.social Media Writer/Complainer
Previously: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
Currently: https://mediahappyhour.substack.com/
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.
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Challiss McDonough @challiss-m.bsky.social Advocate. Recovering humanitarian. Ex-journalist. Runner. Hiker.
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Mariam Kirollos @markir.bsky.social Researcher. Writer. Feminist. MENA+
@meestarelias.bsky.social @meestarelias.bsky.social 
Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Bill Kole @billkole.bsky.social Author of IN GUNS WE TRUST, 2026 religion book of the year. Runner, sailor, fly fisherman. billkolebooks.com https://substack.com/@billkole
Edward Lucas @edwardlucas.bsky.social Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
Toula Vlahou @toulavlahouwsj.bsky.social News Editor at @WSJ. Mom, spouse, sibling, friend, traveler, Greek- American. Also involved with a few books. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Murphy/author/B00Y6QYWXU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1732049756&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabl
Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social White House reporter at CNN. Ex-POLITICO. I write about the politics, policy and people shaping Trump’s agenda and administration.
Tell me what you’re hearing and seeing—my Signal username is cancryn.01
Paul McLeary @paulmcleary.bsky.social National security reporter for Politico, Buffalo sports fan despite all of it.
Zach Montellaro @zachmontellaro.bsky.social Editing news at @POLITICO.com. Nothing you say will upset me more than the Mets. Email me at zmontellaro(at)politico(dot)com
Zack Stanton @zackstanton.bsky.social Deputy managing editor for news @MS.now. Former editor of @politico.com's Playbook. Macomb County native.
Reach me on Signal: zstanton.01
Caitlin Emma @caitlinzemma.bsky.social Former POLITICO reporter
Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
www.politico.com
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
Morgan Till @mtill50.bsky.social Greta’s Dogfather | @pbsnews.org For. & Def. Editor | NewsHour.pbs.org | “I don’t mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.” | Wahoowa | Signal: MTill.08
Orange, VA
Evan DeSimone @smorgasboredom.bsky.social Media writer/ennui enthusiast: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
📍 NYC
Colum Lynch @columlynch.bsky.social Reporter at Devex News.
Priors: Foreign Policy Magazine, Washington Post
Brooklyn and United Nations
Greg Miller @gregpmiller.bsky.social International Investigations for The Washington Post. Based in London. Author of The Apprentice, Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy. greg.miller@washpost.com; signal/whatsapp: +1 202-494-1545.
Tom Rachman @tomrachman.bsky.social Writer/A.I. researcher. Now: Google DeepMind. Before: intl edition of NY Times; the AP; novels ("The Imperfectionists" etc.); ghostwrote "We Are Bellingcat"; behavioural science @ LSE; journalism @ Columbia; cinema @Univ of Toronto.