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Jeffrey Prescott @jeffreyprescott.bsky.social Senior fellow @carnegieendowment.org. Former US Ambassador to the UN in Rome, State, NSC, WH. Personal account.
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
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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
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Sarah Dadouch @sarahdadouch.bsky.social Currently reporting from Damascus for the Financial Times. Formerly Washington Post, Reuters. From Damascus, شامية قحّ sarah.dadouch@ft.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
@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
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Roba El Husseini ربى @robahus.bsky.social AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief
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Yale World Fellow
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
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Phil Gordon @philgordondc.bsky.social Sydney Stein Jr Scholar @BrookingsInst. White House, NSC and State Department under Biden, Obama and Clinton. Only posting articles here, commenting on X.
Ellie Sennett @elliesennett.bsky.social Freelance Reporter-Producer at Al Jazeera. Formerly reporting news at PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera English and The National. Sometimes amateur music, film critic.
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social International assignment editor, Washington Post // Journalism instructor, Harvard // New Englander. Potential Ukrainian. Literally Irish. Now more Canadian!™
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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Sam Wendel @s-wendel.bsky.social Senior Marketing Research Analyst at Al-Monitor covering MENA biz and Econ 
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Maya Garg @mayagarg.bsky.social Senior Managing Producer, @the1a.org 📻 (WAMU/NPR)
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Ariane Tabatabai @atabatabai.bsky.social Vice President of Research for Security & Defense at Chicago Council on Global Affairs • Contributing Editor at Lawfare • Ex Pentagon & State Department • Author of No Conquest, No Defeat (Oxford University Press) & co-author of Triple Axis (Bloomsbury)
Kelly McEvers @kellymcevers.bsky.social Founding host, NPR's Embedded. Former host, All Things Considered. Former NPR Middle East correspondent. Teacher/trainer, Uncuffed. Dodger fan with the zeal of a convert.
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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.
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Courtney Kealy @courtneykealy.bsky.social Journalist with some good stories to tell.
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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/ 
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Jenn Williams @jennruth.bsky.social Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy. Host of The Negotiators podcast. 
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
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Mustapha Hamoui @beirutspring.com 🇱🇧 I've been watching and writing about Lebanon for more than 20 years. I can sometimes get carried away.
Sean Yom @seanyom.bsky.social Poli-sci prof @ Temple, Senior Fellow @ DAWN, and luckiest dad outside Türkiye. I write on Mideast politics, authoritarianism, & US foreign policy. More: http://seanyom.com. ***Slowly moving here from Twitter/X...
Dr Andreas Krieg @andreaskrieg.bsky.social Author - Asso Prof King's College London / Royal College of Defence Studies (Global Strategy Program)
Fellow Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
Director MENA analytica Ltd
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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
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
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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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
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Mostafa Salem @mostafasalemcnn.bsky.social Mideast senior reporter for CNN
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding).
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Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament.
From between Junction 12/13 of the M6.
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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.
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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Yusuf Can @yusufcan.bsky.social Research Associate @ Stimson Center. Formerly @ Wilson Center. All things MENA & Turkey. Alum @ Georgetown Uni. Views my own. ycan@stimson.org