Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Who Targets Me @whotargets.me On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
Kris Ruijgrok @krisruijgrok.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UvA, political scientist studying digital authoritarianism, internet shutdowns, computational propaganda, India & Southeast Asia, Partij voor de Dieren www.krisruijgrok.com
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
Tips to: 📨hannah.murphy@ft.com
Signal: mshannahmurphy.04
Caleb Kraft @calebkraft.bsky.social Illustration, Fiction, 3d modeling. I run www.thecontrollerproject.com, providing 3dprinted parts to help gamers with disabilities. 
Ally Freischmidt @allyfreischmidt.bsky.social journalism student at UoP
local and national politics
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social Journalist. Writer-Producer of historical thriller MR JONES. Watch: http://tiny.cc/okyx001
BOOKS: Orwell & The Refugees. Mrs Orwell. Dictatorship-It's Easier Than You Think!
PODCAST: @gaslitnation.bsky.social
CONTACT: AndreaChalupa.com
Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social Guardian columnist, journalist, author, professor. www.moustafabayoumi.com
Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
Jalel Harchaoui @jalel-h.bsky.social Analyst focusing on #Libya security & political economy.
Emadeddin Badi @emadbadi.bsky.social Eyes on #Libya, MENA geopolitics & security.
Layla Mashkoor @laylam.bsky.social Deputy Director of Research, @dfrlab.bsky.social.
Jamila Raqib @jamilaraqib.bsky.social Studying and promoting the use of nonviolent action in conflicts
Zouhir Al Shimale @zouhiralshimale.bsky.social Journalist from Syria, Aleppo | international HRL MA @SOAS| At Valent's head of research responding to the increasingly chaotic information environment.
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Mustafa Qadri @mustafaqadri.bsky.social CEO @equidem.bsky.social Research Fellow @ihrb.bsky.social Board @forensicarchi.bsky.social and Corp Justice Coalition. Tragic music tastes. Views personal. #humanrights (he/him)
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social Saudi Arabia and UAE Researcher @HRW • she/her
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joey-shea
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Sahar Mechmech @saharmechmech.bsky.social MENA Tax Justice, Feminist Economics, and Climate Justice | Inclusive Economies manager at @timep.bsky.social
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
@reorient.bsky.social @reorient.bsky.social The home of the Critical Muslim Studies Project.
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris @robincarhartharris.bsky.social 🍄 Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor,
Neurology & Psychiatry, UCSF.
Psychedelic neuroscientist & psychologist.
Author & pioneer in consciousness research.
https://linktr.ee/Robincarhartharris
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca 
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Erin Clare Brown @erinclarebrown.bsky.social Reporter. Powder skier. Quilt maker. North Africa Editor at New Lines Magazine. Creator of Revolution One podcast. ex: NYT, WSJ. IWMF grantee. Generally tired. Pitch me: ebrown@newlinesmag.com
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
Rym Momtaz ريم ممتاز @rmomtaz.bsky.social 🇱🇧&🇺🇸(Paris-based) Editor-in-chief Strategic Europe, Carnegie Europe.
Ex-IISS on Eastern Mediterranean.
Ex-Politico on Macron.
Ex-ABC News on Syria/Iraq/Lebanon/Israel.
Multiple Emmy winner.
Laila al-Zwaini @lailazwaini.bsky.social Arabist/jurist | 🇳🇱🇮🇶 | law-shari`a-tribes | Iraq, Yemen, UN Afghanistan | committed to advancing the civil #madaniya movement in the MENA | ❤️coffee&cinema
@ibnkafka.bsky.social @ibnkafka.bsky.social Raja, Lens, Hammarby, Liverpool, Union Saint-Gilloise, Livorno, St. Pauli in no particular order. Law, politics and similar delusions. Skriver för sällan på svenska.
Gissou Nia @gissounia.bsky.social Lawyer specialized in international criminal and human rights law. Founder & director of @slpjustice.bsky.social.
Shreya Parikh شريا پریکھ @shreya-parikh.bsky.social Dual PhD political science & sociology CERI-SciencesPo and UNC
✍🏾 on blackness-arabness
teaching: race, migration, citizenship in MidEast+Africa at Sciences Po
On Twitter @shreya_parikh
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Kristine Eikrem @kristinevegard.bsky.social 
Michael Isikoff @misikoff.bsky.social Journalist, Author, Podcaster, Dog Walker
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
Trey Walsh @trey.progressivebitcoiner.org Founder/board progressivebitcoiner.org | Director of Finance & Admin myfirstbitcoin.org | Bitcoin and freedom tech advocate supporting humanity’s global struggle for freedom in the 21st century | insufferable New England sports fan
The Progressive Bitcoiner, Inc. @progressivebitcoiner.org the progressive think tank researching Bitcoin’s real impacts on economic justice, climate/energy, rights and community empowerment ✊ | grants, media, education
https://progressivebitcoiner.org/
Ameen Mitwally @ameenmitwally.bsky.social MENA Researcher | interested in Political Economy, Decolonization & Sufism
Khalidalbaih @khalidalbaih.bsky.social @moleskinefoundation fellow /Soros Arts Fellow/ EHF Fellow
Founder: @getfadaa_ @dohafashionfridays @sudanadlibrary @khartoonmag
Jeje Mohamed @jejem.bsky.social Holistic safety & security expert, press freedom, media risk advisor, HEFAT, physical, digital & psychological safety, advocate 4 all rights
Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social Pakistani-🇨🇦 grew up in Saudi. Illustrator, host of Polite Conversations Pod. IDW ridiculer. Covering types of extremism that masquerade as Rational/Intellectual
https://open.spotify.com/show/25FhI3g0wZMjWT19aIxcOn?si=x6hs5ldDQAWYmlHFLcgTJw
Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding).
http://instagram.com/josephwillits/
https://linktr.ee/josephwillits
Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament.
From between Junction 12/13 of the M6.
Not funny, but tweets my own.
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
Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
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.
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
takhalus @takhalus.bsky.social Boon companion of mankind
and fan of magical realism .
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Pierre Fermigier @scriptio.bsky.social Politics, History, MENA & International Relations | Ex HRVP Cabinet, EEAS, SGDSN, Quai d'Orsay & Assemblée nationale | RT≠endorsement
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com
https://www.newarab.com/
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria and the Middle East.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
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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
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social Malign influence and info ops | Foreign interference | Russia @ Atlantic Council, DFRLab. Views my own. 🇺🇦
Nick Waters @nickwaters.bsky.social Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Ali Gharib @ali-gharib.theintercept.com @ali_gharib
Editor
Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social I report and run projects on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times where we collect and analyze audio-visual evidence. Ireland and New York. nytimes.com/visual-investigations
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com
team, biryani (mutton), Herzog and Madeira wine aficionado, gardener, Irish citizen, NUFC. History, politics, colonialism, war, intelligence/cyber, religions. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
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.
Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, eyes on the Horn of Africa. Migration, human rights, OSINT.
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/zecharias-zelalem
Wael Eskandar @weskandar.bsky.social A writer of sorts
Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises.
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
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Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
Mohamed Mandour @mandour.bsky.social Masters of Human Rights @Humphery School, University of Minnesota. MENA Researcher @Committee to Protect Journalists. #Press_Freedom, #Transnational_Repression, and #Tech_policy. Words are mine! 
Karena Avedissian @karena1.bsky.social Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers