Drewery Dyke @drewerydyke.bsky.social Middle East, governance, human rights; not keen on asymmetric power structures; more so justice. Wannabe sociologist. Senior Fellow @FPCThinkTank; Salam for Democracy and Human Rights. From Winnipeg 🇨🇦; now in Hackney 🇬🇧.Banner - the family 🐈, Herbert.
John Allen Gay @johnallengay.bsky.social Executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society. Interested in Iran, the Middle East, and U.S. foreign policy.
Liam Stack @liam-stack.bsky.social NY Times reporter currently in Tel Aviv, but usually in NYC. Formerly Cairo, and a few other places. Khawaga-at-large. Brand new to BlueSky. Liam.stack@nytimes.com
Khaled Diab @khaleddiab.bsky.social Journalist, writer, activist. Eco-worrier. Punsultant. Author of 'Islam for the Politically Incorrect' and 'Intimate Enemies'.
The Alternative Guide to Islam: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGVJ8WCF
Website: https://chronikler.com
Nancy Youssef @nancyayoussef.bsky.social Journalist. Egyptian-American. And according to one reliable source, "a much better stepmom than Cinderella’s.” http://WSJ.com #autismstepmom
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.
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Ilan Goldenberg @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social Chief Policy Officer, J Street. Former Mideast Advisor to Vice President Harris and Director of Jewish Outreach on the Harris-Walz campaign.
Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com Senior Adviser at QuincyInst.org.
Investigative Journalist at Large at ResponsibleStatecraft.org.
Send tips to my secure email: eliclifton @protonmail.com
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Azadeh Moshiri @azadehmoshiri.bsky.social Foreign Correspondent in Pakistan for BBC News
Former producer for Yalda Hakim + Amanpour at CNN
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.
Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social Chaos Muppet, Order Rising. CEO, ResearchCollaborative.org. Young(ish) Leader, Munich Security Conference + Friends of Europe. Former head of GlobalZero.org. Radicalized by basic decency. Made in #Iowa with parts from #Iran. he/him 🇦🇲
@leilamansouri.bsky.social @leilamansouri.bsky.social 
Alex MacDonald @alexjaymac.bsky.social Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly talk about Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, UK and Turkey. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
Liz Dent @lizydent.bsky.social Senior Fellow @WashInstitute primarily covering U.S. foreign and defense policy towards the Gulf | Former DoD and State | @MiamiUniversity & @AU_SIS alum
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Dr HA Hellyer @drhahellyer.bsky.social ‣ Senior Associate Fellow - Geopolitics, Security @ Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
‣ Fmr: Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Harvard Kennedy School
‣ Specialise in MENA ◘ Europe ◘ SE-Asia
Matthew Levitt @mattlevitt.bsky.social Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
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
jihadologyplus.com
Devorah Margolin @devorahmargolin.bsky.social Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute; Teach at Georgetown; PhD from War Studies at KCL; All views mine.
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social TIMEP is dedicated to centering localized perspectives in the policy discourse on the Middle East and North Africa. (Twitter: @TIMEPDC)
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Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Ali Hashem علي هاشم @alihashem.bsky.social 🇱🇧|🇸🇱 @AJEnglish | Founder @darhashembooks & @aljadahmedia | bylines @AlMonitor @AmwajMedia @foreignpolicy| MA Politics & IR (#Iran) @RoyalHolloway
Afshon Ostovar @osto.bsky.social Historian of the recent past | Naval Postgraduate School | FPRI | Opinions are mine & don't reflect any org. New Book: Wars of Ambition https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Ambition-United-States-Struggle/dp/0190940980/ 
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Gissou Nia @gissounia.bsky.social Lawyer specialized in international criminal and human rights law. Founder & director of @slpjustice.bsky.social.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Hala Gorani @halagorani.bsky.social NBC News International Correspondent. Former CNN. Author "But You Don't Look Arab."
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.
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
Eric Brewer @ebrewer.bsky.social Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
Natan Sachs @natansachs.bsky.social Senior Fellow
Middle East Institute
Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/natansachs
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
carnegieendowment.org
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social - D Dennis @dennisn.bsky.social I'm just tired
Dina Sadek @dinamsadek.bsky.social Senior Analyst @Graphika.
I have opinions of my own.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Saeid Jafari @jafarisaeid.bsky.social Journalist & Middle East analyst/ Focus on FP & Iran
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
Ashkan Kalashy @ashkankalashy.bsky.social I am a British- Iranian TV producer, journalist, video editor, motion graphics artists, poet, part time procrastinator etc
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, Iran, & women’s human rights. Writing a book on early 20th c. US-Iran relations. Philly sports fan. Visiting Scholar @ GWU IMES and HRC Oral History Fellow @ Georgetown 🗃️
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)
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
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
Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social Pitzer prof. Former kindergarten teacher, & sometime swarthy bastard. I work on democratic movements and the politics of postrevolutionary schooling in Iran. www.shervinmalekzadeh.org
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Will Todman @willtodman.bsky.social Chief of Staff @geopolitics.csis.org and senior fellow @mideast.csis.org. Host of State of Play pod. Conflict, governance, and displacement in the MENA region. Views my own. https://www.csis.org/people/will-todman
Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian 
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. 
Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.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.
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman.bsky.social I invest in developing economies and study how sanctions are reshaping West Asia and the world. CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. Adjunct Prof at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Khosro Kalbasi Isfahani @khosroisfahani.bsky.social Oak human rights fellow Colby College | Journalist BBC Monitoring | Previously Financial Tribune | Eyes on Iran, Middle East
Rose Jackson @rosejackson.bsky.social Lead DFRLab Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Failed startup founder, snarky policymaker, former frontline civilian…always Hoosier.
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.bsky.social We amplify voices on the issues that matter to you. | Tell us what you think: letters@nytimes.com
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Andy Carvin @acarv.in Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social International crouton etc.
Azam Jangravi @azamjangravi.bsky.social Information Security Analyst,and women’s Rights Advocate.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
Nima Akbarpour 🔥 نیما @nima.bsky.social Exploring the world through tech and stories, while diving into filmmaking and acting.
Former host of Persian Click on BBC
📍 London, England
https://x.com/nima
https://nima.media
https://imdb.me/nima.akbarpour
https://impossiblefilmfest.com/
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