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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social Work in human rights, international criminal law, and accountability for mass atrocities - in Canada and around the world.
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Sean Rehaag @seanrehaag.bsky.social Osgoode Hall Law School Professor | Refugee Law Lab Director | York University | https://osgoode.yorku.ca/rehaag | https://refugeelab.ca (he/him)🏳️🌈
Laurie Hanna @lauriehanna.bsky.social Journalist; Amnesty International.
Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social Author and writer: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Development, War and Peace. Ex UN, WHO, Red Cross Red Crescent, UK Government. Professor Emeritus Univ of Manchester
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social Work: @hrw.org on human rights in Europe
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Duncan Tucker @duncantucker.bsky.social Journalism and human rights. Amnesty International's Leadership Media and Communications Manager.🕯 Views expressed here are my own.
Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, detention, and torture & ill-treatment.
Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social Writer, educator, editor. 2x Cdn columnist of year (Wpg Free Press), Professor (U of Manitoba) & Gov Gen award winning author - Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024)
Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social Gitxsan. Loves learning and working collectively to achieve culturally based equity for First Nations children, youth and families.
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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social Associate Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Director at Human Rights Watch
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Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
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Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
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
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.
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social A Syrian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with 20+ years’ experience, founder of the Prisons Museum. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
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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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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
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”
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Joanne Stocker @joannestocker.bsky.social Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Rohit Kachroo @rohitkachrooitv.bsky.social Global Security Editor for ITV News. Before that, UK Editor for ITV News, and before that, Africa Correspondent for ITV News and NBC News.
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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.
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
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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.
Maher Akraa @maherakraa.com A narrative may color reality, but truth is colorless.
Design Researcher & Journalist | PhD Student at University of Zurich | Research Associate at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).
Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
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Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social Exec Director, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
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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.
Nadia @nadiadembarros.bsky.social 📚 LL.M. Candidate, Berkeley Law
Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR. I research & teach human rights, international law, state repression, and nonprofits during closing civic space
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
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Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social Political scientist • Author of Governing Truth bit.ly/governing-truth • Committed to human rights, transitional justice, and international law
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.
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Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: https://law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Sarah Bush @sarahbush.bsky.social professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania studying democracy promotion, elections, women's rights, NGOs; new book: https://amzn.to/3RIvGc0
Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science @ Tulane | Interested in intl orgs & law, human rights, soccer & dogs (she/her) | Website: rjschoner.com
Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
Genevieve Bates @genbates.bsky.social Assistant Prof at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Transitional justice, human rights, and int’l law. https://www.genevievebates.com/