Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/), journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: glyn.moody@gmail.com
Adam Makary @adamakary.bsky.social 
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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Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests in US, politics
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@meterfeldweg.bsky.social @meterfeldweg.bsky.social Love while you can. All else is naught.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social Lapsed film critic. Writer, reader, bearder. Seen at Crooked Marquee, Musings, Bright Wall Dark Room, Plex, several others. Sucker for ’90s country. Hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
https://authory.com/danielcarlson
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social Journalist writing about theater, mostly. • Posting about theater, culture, journalism, NYC. • Skepticism yes, cynicism no. • Banner: detail, David Hockney’s “Dancers with Audience and Orchestra, August 2025.” • Freelance. • laura.collinshughes@gmail.com
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Lars Berger @larsberger.bsky.social Professor, Federal University of Administrative Sciences/Berlin, Research and teaching on US foreign and counterterrorism policy, Islamist terrorism, MENA international politics, Views my own.
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
Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social Executive editor INTERNATIONALE POLITIK QUARTERLY @ipq.bsky.social / Editor-at-Large @internationalepolitik.de, published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); International Fellow @congeostrategy.bsky.social; lapsed Londoner.
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic foresight: future security environment, defence policy, defence planning, warfare development regarding the climate change, energy, defence nexus | Former adviser to Ukraine's military | PhD in sustainability science (complex adaptive systems)
Jalel Harchaoui @jalel-h.bsky.social Analyst focusing on #Libya security & political economy.- 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.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt
Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social Friendly crone. Asst professor of History at CUNY. Plant person.
I wrote a book on Ottoman Egypt and the Mediterranean archive. It's out now! https://www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts-mediterranean/paper
Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com I try to get people to do stuff online that makes a difference offline.
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
Michael Nuding @michaelnuding.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate @UniFAU @FESonline 🏛️ | Politics in WANA 🌍 | Arabic student 📚 | Socialist & Democrat🌹| Antifa ✊🏼 | Berlin based 🌆 | @Villigst | er/he
Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST)
Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics
Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.
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.
sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social historian, walker.
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social tired goth historian, tour guide, folk artist, baseball fan, on Conestoga-Susquehannock land (ask me about it!).
Tours, contact info, resources, art @ https://emmakatherinebilski.place/link-tree/
[any pronouns. non-Native. still queer.]
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
The Conversation @theconversation.com News by experts. Free, independent and based on evidence.
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org
Signal - tylermcbrien.97
Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more: www.tylermcbrien.com
Jenne Jan Holtland @jjholtland.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent for @volkskrant.nl, based in Amman. Eyes on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen & the Gulf.
Villages over cities. Blueskies in Dutch.
Author "De Koerier van Maputo" (2021): https://tinyurl.com/3v7ekrah
Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.
www.deensharp.com
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social Prince of #Serendipity. cf: #synchronicity, #poetry, #therapy ♋ #mystic, #poet, #existential #counsellor (according to some)
"Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
Book a session: https://linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pecotic
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.
https://www.academyofdiplomacy.org/members-1/gray/gordon
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
Liberties | Salmagundi | World Literature Today
📚 amazon.com/author/yahialababidi
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, fellow at Century International @tcfdotorg.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
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