Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Capital & Main @capitalandmain.bsky.social Investigating money, power and society.
https://capitalandmain.com
CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social A group of autonomous working authors collectivizing the waged labor of writing.
Culture, critique, art and anarchy, a life of beauty, joy, and all the shiny things we can find.
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Issandr Amrani @arabist.net I write about politics, geopolitics, technology and culture, with particular focus on MENA. Recovering journalist and OG blogger at arabist.net; formerly at
@open-society.bsky.social and @crisisgroup.org. Usual caveats apply.
@rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social 
Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social Politics, economics, history, theory. تشاؤم العقل تفاؤل الإرادة
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Bassam Al Kantar @balkantar.bsky.social Experienced Legal Researcher specializing in International Crimes and Human Rights Documentation
Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social 
Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO
@nuqatar.bsky.social, Founder @iasnuq.bsky.social, Professor
@northwesternu, Board Chair @ACLS1919 Board Member
& @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.
reclaim UC @reclaimuc.bsky.social 
The Mutual Aid Podcast @mutualaidpod.bsky.social The podcast where we talk about all things mutual aid.
hosted by @essssraaa.bsky.social & @aymanmak.bsky.social
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
https://linktr.ee/mutualaidpodcast
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org UntoldMag.org is a platform that challenges the established and amplifies the untold, bridging the gaps between rigorous analysis and accessible discourse and reimagining knowledge as a shared, dynamic, decentralized, and deeply situated experience.
Walid El Houri @walidhouri.bsky.social Editor in Chief @untoldmag.org | West Asia & North Africa Editor @globalvoices.org | Senior Communications Specialist Centre for Lebanese Studies
Roba El Husseini ربى @robahus.bsky.social AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief
Former Syria /Lebanon correspondent- in love with Syria
Yale World Fellow
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Arash Davari @arashdavar.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Political Theory, Revolution, Iran
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Architect // #DataViz storyteller // tech wrangler. Making useful stuff with #OpenData at the ONS. Occasionally #PalOpenMaps. Views my own. Portfolio @ ahmadbarclay.com
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
Tom Law (GFMD) @tomlawmedia.bsky.social Deputy Director, Global Forum for Media Development #MediaDev #Journalism
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, eyes on the Horn of Africa. Migration, human rights, OSINT.
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/zecharias-zelalem
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl Senior Investigator @cen4infores.bsky.social | PhD candidate at TUDelft: whitephosphorus.info | Portfolio: baydoun.nl | Amsterdam, Beirut
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social Journalist | Wars, rights, dissent | Italiana all'estero, mother of dragons, runner | Send me tips
Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org We provide world-class investigative training and promote investigative journalism worldwide. https://linktr.ee/cijournalismuk
Jake Charles Rees @jakecharlesrees.bsky.social curator // art + journalism // source protection programme @tcij.org // teaching // ual // kabk //
Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com War, politics, climate change & food systems, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Investigations @ThePublicSource. Author, Day of Honey. Writing (tor)mentor. Interested in everything.
RTs—and I cannot stress this enough—are not always endorsements.
WIFP @mediademocracy.bsky.social Nonprofit organization founded in 1972 seeking media democracy. We need a radical reconstruction of the communications media where everyone can speak for themselves rather than the current system where corporate media conglomerates own 90% of the media.
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Pro-library socialism. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
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From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
مصدر عام | The Public Source @thepublicsource.bsky.social In-depth and uncompromising journalism in the public interest
إعلام مكرَّس لإنتاج صحافة معمّقة وغير مساوِمة لخدمة المصلحة العامّة
https://thepublicsource.org/
Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social Associate Dean SOSH, Professor & Chair, Politics & IR Program, DI, Editor-in-Chief MELG, & untutorable critic of all things Lebanese: Ubi libertas, ibi patria
Magda Abu-Fadil @magdaabufadil.bsky.social Wordmonger 
Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social We unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces. Join us. https://progressive.international/
Ramy Yaacoub @ramyyaacoub.bsky.social 🥷 at @open-society.bsky.social. ex @timep.bsky.social. Rocket Scientist @EmbryRiddle. M.A. @ausis.bsky.social. Political Analyst. Scuba Diver. English, Arabic, y un poco de Español 🇨🇦🇪🇬🇺🇸
Twitter: @ramyyaacoub
Wendy Trevino @prolpo.bsky.social author of Brazilian Is Not A Race & Cruel Fiction