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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris & College of Europe, Bruges
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll.bsky.social Foreign Correspondent at The Economist
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social Focus: Russia, intel, Eastern Europe.
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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
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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- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Autocracy, democracy, and the NBA. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia and Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Kemal Büyükyüksel @kbuyukyuksel.bsky.social Generally, political and social science stuff. Worried about democracy, authoritarianism, inequality, discrimination and civil conflicts. Other than that, whatever I want to write on. Tweets in TR/ENG. Previously at @CEU and @SabanciUniv.
Rick Petree @rickpetree.bsky.social Battered but unbowed. "The truth will stand when the world won’t.”
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Jannes Tessmann @jannes-t.bsky.social Head of Istanbul Office, Stiftung Mercator | Alumnus of Istanbul Policy Center, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, University of Cologne, Sabancı University
Umit Akcay @umitak.bsky.social Political economy of development & growth models | Dependent financialization and central banking | Political economy of new authoritarianisms | Turkey | @ipeberlin.bsky.social | https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/members/uemit-akcay/
Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social Journalist; STT news agency in Finland, mostly foreign news. Previously in Istanbul, Turkey with The Wall Street Journal / Yle / Helsingin Sanomat in Istanbul. Third culture kid. Posts in English, Finnish, Turkish
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Nicolas Bourcier @nicolasbourcier.bsky.social Le Monde, correspondant/muhabir @ Istanbul. German-born, France-raised, auteur, ex corr. @ Rio de Janeiro, dernier ouvrage paru "Les Amazoniens en sursis" aux Editions HD. Proverbe turc : "qui se brûle avec le lait, souffle sur le yaourt"
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Jason Rezaian @rezaian.bsky.social Director of Press Freedom Initiatives at The Washington Post
Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
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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.
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Tamara Cofman Wittes @tcwittes.bsky.social President of National Democratic Institute. “I believe in democracy, because it’s the only system that believes in us.”-Madeleine Albright
Hala Gorani @halagorani.bsky.social NBC News International Correspondent. Former CNN. Author "But You Don't Look Arab."
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.
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Ahmed Al Omran @alomran.me Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Jen Gavito @fsjen.bsky.social Former senior State Department. Transatlanticist. Middle East Junkie. Mom, traveler, foodie-wannabe.
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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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.
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
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Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
@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
Christiana Parreira @cmparreira.bsky.social political scientist • assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) • PhD Stanford • governance and elections in the Middle East
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Alex Stark @alexstark.bsky.social RAND. Enthusiastic Wellesley alum. PhD Georgetown. She/her. Opinions my own.
Go birds.
Jonathan Fulton @jonathanfulton.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack.
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
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Khaled Elgindy @elgindy.bsky.social Middle East analyst | author, ‘Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump’ http://tinyurl.com/y5qpl6bb
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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.
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics
Katherine Zimmerman @katiezimmerman.bsky.social Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups.
katherinezimmerman.substack.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.
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Aaron Stein @aaronstein1.bsky.social President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
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Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
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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
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
Marya Hannun @maryahannun.bsky.social Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
Hamzeh Hadad @hamzehhadad.bsky.social Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. All views are my own.
Marsin Alshamary @marsin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College | Non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Mehran Haghirian @mehranhaghirian.bsky.social Director of Regional Initiatives, Bourse & Bazaar Foundation | PhD. Gulf Studies, Qatar University | MA International Affairs, American University’s School of International Service | Diplomacy
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