Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social Lecturer at SOAS. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
alexandra-blackman.bsky.social @alexandra-blackman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell, former NYU Abu Dhabi postdoc, Stanford PhD, CASA & Carnegie Endowment Fellow. Into Picasso, poetry, MENA politics, and Pittsburgh.
Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold | latest: “Propaganda of the Victims” (https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2026.10037) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
Lisa Blaydes @lisablaydes.bsky.social Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
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.
Shirin Jaafari @shirinj.bsky.social Reporter for The World radio program 📻 🎙🎧
Eyes on the Middle East.
Email: Shirin_Jaafari@wgbh.org
http://www.pri.org/people/shirin-jaafari
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
+972 Magazine @972mag.com Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine, home to Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
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).
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Hugh Lovatt @hlovatt.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations.
Middle East analysis and European foreign policy, with focus on Israel/Palestine and Western Sahara. Mountain runner. Usual caveats.
Zaid Al-Ali @zalali.bsky.social Senior Adviser on constitutions @Int_IDEA. Teach at @Princeton. Author of books on Iraq + on Arab constitutions. Former @wiko_berlin @Harvard_Law @UNIraq @KingsCollegeLon
@thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social 
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 
@csalih.bsky.social @csalih.bsky.social 
Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Brookings Institution @brookings.edu We equip decisionmakers with nonpartisan research and policy strategies to create a more prosperous and secure country and world.
📩 Sign up for the Brookings Brief: http://brook.gs/3JuZxRE
Christopher Solomon @chris-solomon.bsky.social Posting about Syria, Ukraine, Russia, and foreign affairs. 🇸🇾🇺🇦
Author of "In Search of Greater Syria." https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/in-search-of-greater-syria-9780755641826/
Tanya Goudsouzian @tanyagoudsouzian.bsky.social International journalist, communications strategist, author and senior editor with extensive experience in Middle East and South Asia Affairs, with a particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. 
M. Tahir Kilavuz @mtkilavuz.bsky.social 
Zeinab F. Shuker @zfshuker.bsky.social Flâneuse | Theorist | Writer | Asst Professor at SHSU | Sociologist of the political economy and climate change of Iraq & MENA
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social Free Palestine. No Zionists. No antisemitism. Millennial. Observer46664.86 on Signal, localobserver86 on Discord, and localobserver86 @ gmail. Not a serious or a professional account. She/her/hers
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Hayder Al Shakeri @haydersh.bsky.social Research Fellow @ChathamHouse @CH_MENAP. Cautiously optimistic 🇮🇶 @AUB_Lebanon @SOAS. All views are my own. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
Taif Alkhudary @alktaif.bsky.social PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge
ECFR MENA @ecfrmena.bsky.social Middle East and North Africa Programme @ecfr.eu
https://ecfr.eu/privacy/#social-media-profiles 
Kelly Petillo @kellyp90.bsky.social MENA Programme Manager at ECFR, focusing on regional migration and humanitarian issues. London based.
CSIS Middle East @mideast.csis.org The CSIS Middle East Program focuses on the drivers of change in the region and is led by Mona Yacoubian. Follows/RTs ≠ endorsements.
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
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Shamiran Mako @smako.bsky.social Associate professor, comparative politics and IR @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
www.shamiranmako.com
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Ali @saffar.bsky.social Lover of football and food.
𒂼𒄄- N @nirrosen.bsky.social @nirrosen.bsky.social
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Dylan O'Driscoll @dylan-odriscoll.bsky.social Professor in Peace & Conflict at Centre for Peace and Security (CPS), Coventry University | Associate Senior Fellow @sipri.org | Drivers of conflict and pathways to peace | Bridging academia & policy
Tyler B. Parker @tylerbparker.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Mercer University (https://liberalarts.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/tyler-parker/).
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social Associate Professor, IR of the Middle East, University of Birmingham Author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (CUP).
Tuğba Bozçağa (Tuba/طُوبَى) @tubabozcaga.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at @KingsCollegeLon
Previously @Harvard @MIT @Bogazici_Econ | political economy of development | tugbabozcaga.com/research | #FirstGen
Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
Alexandra Siegel @aasiegel.bsky.social Associate Prof. University of Colorado Boulder
MENA Politics & Computational Social Science
alexandra-siegel.com
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins. SWANA, disasters, political violence, ethics, humanitarian crises, qual methods, & Star Wars. Wrote a book a/b Palestinian org evolution & social change in wartime Lebanon: http://bit.ly/3VEw64B. EMT. Opinions my own.
Feyaad Allie @feyaadallie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard.
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | your old millennial friend | local politics | palestine | states, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | will strive to listen
Matthew Cebul @matthewcebul.bsky.social Political scientist studying civil resistance, democratic erosion, and US foreign policy in MENA. Lead Research Fellow at HKS Nonviolent Action Lab; formerly USIP. Manservant to Korra the cat.
Lives for Alcaraz highlights, epic fantasy, and "draw a card."- K Kelly Stedem @kstedem.bsky.social Assistant Professor Political Science at Bucknell University. IR, MENA region
Mashail Malik @mamalik.bsky.social Political scientist at Harvard. www.mashailmalik.com
Allison Hartnett @ashartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor at USC POIR. Authoritarianism past and present, redistribution & inequality, land, elites. Mostly MENA. www.allisonhartnett.io
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
Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.
Lillian Frost @lillyfrost.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech, focused on citizenship, migration, law, gender, and Middle East politics, mainly in Jordan
Alice Xu @alicexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UPenn | Comparative inequality, urban & distributive politics, climate change and environmental politics, Latam | https://alicezxu.com/
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...
Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa.
danieltavana.com
POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
Christiana Parreira @cmparreira.bsky.social political scientist • assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) • PhD Stanford • governance and elections in the Middle East
📍 geneva • beirut 🔗 christianaparreira.com
Lama Mourad @lmourad.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CU_NPSIA
| migration, local governance, Middle East politics, Lebanon, research ethics | #FirstGen | she/her | Personal account & opinions
David Siddhartha Patel @davidpatel.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
Sharan Grewal @sharangrewal.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings
Me: https://sharangrewal.com/
My book: https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Democracy-Military-Legacies-Spring/dp/0198873514/
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
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
Sajad Jiyad @sajadjiyad.bsky.social Focus on Iraq
Tamer Badawi تامر بدوي @tbdwi.bsky.social Analyst & field practitioner | Violent conflicts, climate, & governance. چا تره تامر مو ثامر
Tamerbadawi.org
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social VP for Research @CIPolicy. Former @CenturyIntl.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Muhammad Al-Waeli @alwaeli.bsky.social 🇮🇶 || MBA || MA || Ph.D (Candidate) Management || Interested in authority, institutions, and transformation in Iraq || Views are my own
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
Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Political Science
@Yale. Formerly @MITPoliSci @HarvardWCFIA. Contentious politics in Jordan & Syria. peripatetic product of the garden state.
https://biffpm.github.io/
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
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
Hamzeh Hadad @hamzehhadad.bsky.social Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. All views are my own.