Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
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.
Jack Moore @jfxm.bsky.social @afp.com editor, Middle East and North Africa desk
Callum Paton @callumpaton.bsky.social Journalist for AFP in Qatar. Opinions own. Email: callum.paton@afp.com
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
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Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
Jack Hewson @jackhewson.com Al Jazeera English Correspondent reporting from Iraq | Past lives in: Ukraine, Africa, South-East Asia | RTS '26 | DuPont '23 | http://jackhewson.com/showreel
Hala Gorani @halagorani.bsky.social NBC News International Correspondent. Former CNN. Author "But You Don't Look Arab."
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Abbie Cheeseman @cheesemanab.bsky.social Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
William Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
https://turkeybooktalk.com
https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
William Christou @willchristou.bsky.social Writing for the Guardian in Beirut.
Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social A Middle East-based journalist and geopolitical analyst in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Nataliya Vasilyeva @nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
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.
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'.
Clotilde Bigot @clobigot.bsky.social Journaliste basée a Beyrouth
Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social PBS Newshour Special Correspondent traversing the wider Middle East & Africa. Ex-TheEconomist. Mother of hounds, proud daughter of immigrants.
leilamolanaallen.com
Sune Engel Rasmussen @suneengel.bsky.social Security correspondent for WSJ and author of "Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation". Eyes on war, the Arctic, organized crime and terror. He/him.
Roba El Husseini ربى @robahus.bsky.social AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief
Former Syria /Lebanon correspondent- in love with Syria
Yale World Fellow
Imtiaz Tyab CBS @imtiaztyab.bsky.social CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent
Raf Sanchez @rafsanchez.bsky.social Foreign correspondent NBC News. Covering the Middle East + beyond. IG: http://instagram.com/rafsanchez.nbc
Ceren İskit @ceren-iskit.bsky.social Journalist/producer
Shares stories from Turkey.
Featured in Fayn, bianet, Turkey Recap & more.
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Alexander Christie-Miller @achristiemiller.bsky.social Journalist/writer, formerly in Istanbul, now Norfolk. ‘To the City’ (William Collins/Pegasus). All posts have grammar/spelling errors. Retweets usually = endorsements. Opinions not my own unless stated otherwise, and even then probably still not my own.
Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social Freelance journalist in Istanbul covering enviro, social, urban issues + art/culture/food/travel: https://www.jenniferhattam.com
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Liz Cookman @lizcookman.bsky.social 🖋️Correspondent: Ukraine, Turkey, Middle East
📍 Kyiv and Istanbul
🏆Best Print & Best Specialist Journalist, Freelance Journalism Awards 2024
🏆Amnesty Gaby Rado award 2023
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Mohammed R. Mhawish @mohamhawish.bsky.social Writer and journalist from Gaza City.
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
Abdirahim Saeed @abdirahims.bsky.social BBC journalist. Open-source investigations (OSINT) editor at BBC Arabic. Posting on verification, visual investigations, disinformation, AI, data, Middle East, global affairs.
Brian Whitaker @brianwhitaker.bsky.social Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East', plus several other books about the region. Website: al-bab.com
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 
Chris El-kholy 🧿 @chriselkholy.bsky.social journalist by training/ media critic by necessity⠀
online editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
toronto by way of cairo
[@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
@sebusher.bsky.social @sebusher.bsky.social Bbc middle east reporter/analyst/editor
Ingrid Woudwijk @ingridwoudwijk.bsky.social 📰📻📸 freelance journalist in Istanbul for @trouw.nl and others
Mitra Nazar @mitrala.bsky.social Journalist, Turkey correspondent (Dutch Public Broadcaster NOS), Feminist
Isaac J. Martín @isaacjmartin.bsky.social Middle East deputy bureau chief for EFE Spanish News Agency. Now Cairo, before Beirut. Former reporter in Morocco for El Mundo. All views mine. IG: isaacjmartin_
Mohamed Samir Khedr @mohsamir.bsky.social Cairo based journalist and analyst, MENA & HOA focused. Executive Editor @ Daily News Egypt Opinions are my own, RT+ ❤️ ≠ endorsement
Åse Marit Befring @asembefring.bsky.social Middle East correspondent for Norwegian TV&Radio (NRK), based in Istanbul. Let’s fight polarization and base the news on facts instead of rumors
Ben Ashraf @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social Editor, The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
submissions: benjamin.ashraf@newarab.com
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
Alex Milan Durie @amkdurie.bsky.social Senior Journalist for Al Jazeera English
Words & photos also in The Guardian, TIME Magazine, The Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters, Rolling Stone & more
👁 on MENA, Mediterranean, culture, migration, and human rights 🌐
www.alexdurie.com
Ami Kaufman @amikaufman.bsky.social Producer/Writer @CNN 'Amanpour.'; Former Chief Night Editor @haaretz; co-founder @972mag. Opinions are my own.
Willy Lowry @willylowry.bsky.social Senior correspondent for The National covering the US State Department, foreign policy and the Middle East. Host of The Interview with Willy Lowry.
Iona Craig @ionacraig.com Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula since 2010. Once-upon-a-time I trained racehorses.
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Andy Wilks @andywilks61.bsky.social Turkey-based hack. Posting on anything that catches my eye or gets my goat. Views arbitrary
Puk Damsgård @pukdamsgaard.bsky.social Middle East correspondent, Danish TV and author. Also roaming Afghanistan. Latest books Drageland, Arabica, Den Sorte Kat i Mosul, The ISIS Hostage.
Campbell MacDiarmid @cammacd.bsky.social Journalist from Aotearoa New Zealand. Now in Ottawa after a long stint in the Middle East
Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social Syrian political activist from #Daraa #Syria Freedom. Ya Hala 👋 8.12.2024
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
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Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net ❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And
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Romaric Godin @romaricgodin.bsky.social Journaliste à Paris (France). Economie politique et critique.
Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social De la sociologie sauvage avec tout le confort moderne. Enseigne des trucs, écrit des livres, fait des blagues sur Batman. May contain cake.
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Anna Colin Lebedev @colinlebedev.cpesr.fr Enseignante chercheuse en science politique @ U Paris Nanterre. Russie, Ukraine, guerre. Quitte définitivement X le 20/1/25. colinlebedev.fr
Nils Wilcke @nilswilcke.bsky.social Journaliste politique 🇫🇷🇩🇪. Carte de presse 128794. Retrouvez-mes off sur Mastodon: paul_denton@mastodon.social
Michaël Zemmour @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr Enseignant chercheur en économie.
Économie politique des transformations de l'Etat social.
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