Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social New Yorker, Idahoan, Story-Seeker, Radio-Maker @Bloomberg @Marketplace formerly @NPR Author: Machiavelli for Women
🎁 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4ef9juth
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
marcos bartolomé 🇵🇸 @bartoleiros.bsky.social ✍🏽🎙 | podcasting at @aljazeera.com i militant al @sindicatlloguer.bsky.social | venimos a la vida a veranear
📌 barcelona | asturies
Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social Work in human rights, international criminal law, and accountability for mass atrocities - in Canada and around the world.
Professor and advocate.
Based in Vancouver.
www.markkersten.com
Tatiana Lehat @tatianalehat.bsky.social interests in all things swana, peace, human rights, global justice, you know the drill | london – paris via القدس
Eric Reidy @ericreidy.bsky.social Editor & Reporter for The New Humanitarian, covering migration and Gaza. What I’m reading/listening to, editing, & writing. 
Jenna F @jennafizzy.bsky.social 
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
@cristinarusu7.bsky.social @cristinarusu7.bsky.social 
aljumhuriya.net @aljumhuriya.bsky.social Independent analysis, commentary, and reporting on #Syria and beyond. Founded in 2012 by Syrian writers and academics.
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
Julia @mllelanterne.bsky.social International Socialist; Mathematician/Physicist; Software engineer with a focus on machine learning; Long Covid/MECFS since early 2024
Sarra Ahmed @sazzler.bsky.social Paediatrician. Wife. Mother. Other. Trying to make sense of this world. Free Sudan 🇸🇩. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Free Congo 🇨🇩 ✊🏾
Daniel Akech Thiong @jongethon.bsky.social Senior Analyst, South Sudan @Crisisgroup|Books: The Politics of Fear in South Sudan (Zed, 2021) |Climate Shocks & Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Eduard Cousin @eduardcousin.bsky.social Journalist with focus on Arab world, including Palestine for @therightsforum.bsky.social. Previously lived in Cairo, now Netherlands. Author of two books on Egypt ('Nu de wereld niet meer kijkt' en 'Alexandrië').
Asma Khalifa @asmakhalifa.bsky.social Forest dweller. Co-Founder: KhalifaIhler.org. Doctoral Researcher @GIGA. Associate Fellow @Chatham House MENA.
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Vittoria Fallanca @rhymeswithditto.bsky.social accidental early modernist • private intellectual
wrote THE DESIGN OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS (OUP), now writing against love
Leverhulme ECF
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-design-of-montaignes-essais-9780198985488
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
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, essayist, public speaker. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Taisa Sganzerla @taisasganzerla.bsky.social Editor at ecfr.eu, previously Global Press Journal, @globalvoices.org, The Cambodia Daily, Estadão. From 🇧🇷, living in 🇵🇱, before in 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇰🇭, ❤️ in 🇯🇵🇵🇭, solidarity with 🇺🇦🇵🇸. She/her
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
SUBS NOW OPEN & WELCOME
Morgan @gibeau-orange.bsky.social Writer / watermelon witch 🇵🇸
Gerrit Kurtz @gerritkurtz.bsky.social Researcher at German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin). Focus on conflict prevention, peacebuilding and diplomacy in the Horn of Africa (Sudan and Ethiopia). Own views. Retweets not endorsement.
https://gerritkurtz.net
Dr Fiona Tolan @fionatolan.bsky.social Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing, LJMU, UK. Contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, politics of cleaning. Posting in a personal capacity.
Sarah Castéran @sarahcasteran.bsky.social Regional advocacy for @MercyCorps. I post about humanitarian crises, human rights, climate justice and feminist stuff. I talk about Sudan a lot right now. Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Views are my own!
Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social Journalist. Berlin. Recently built a platform for journalism centered on Asia, Africa, and the Americas. gishty.com. There, I write different newsletters on what you missed from the “Global South”: (good) news and good literature.
Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
🔗 Shop, sign up, find bookshops, & more: www.libro.fm
Ana Santos Pereira @anamspereira25.bsky.social 🙅🏻♀️ Basicamente, uma 🌼 🇵🇹 à solta 🇧🇷 📚 História (note to self: escrever não é viver) 🧶 Negócio de doido 👅 PT•ES•FR•EN•IT
Natacha Danon @natachadanon.bsky.social Damascus-based journalist telling Syrian stories with eyes on Palestine | Bylines in Syria Direct, New Lines Magazine, Middle East Eye & The New Arab
Laura-Angela Bagnetto @labagnetto.bsky.social Political Editor, The Africa Report
Taphophile, African news junkie
The Lancet @thelancet.com Welcome to The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, published weekly since 1823.
🌐 thelancet.com
DrDrewMikhael @drdrewmikhael.bsky.social Practitioner, writer & commentator on conflict, displacement & peacebuilding.
@hannahpoppy.bsky.social @hannahpoppy.bsky.social 
Sahar Mechmech @saharmechmech.bsky.social MENA Tax Justice, Feminist Economics, and Climate Justice | Inclusive Economies manager at @timep.bsky.social
Hyperion 🧡🕷️🕯️🦇💙 @hyperionpsn.bsky.social Ineffably human.
"The Social Media Sorcerer of Snark and Substance
A masterclass in witty critique, where serious issues meet cheeky charm.
An intellectual enigma with a penchant for playful mischief."
(allegedly)
Mazen Hassoun @hassounmazen.bsky.social Syrian, Journalist, Political Scientist.
Analysis on Syria and the Middle East.
Refugee from X (previously Twitter).
RafifJ @rafifj.bsky.social American by birth, Syrian by blood, activist by nature. Shouting from the rooftop: FREE SYRIA. VP, Syrian Liberal Party; board president, Baytna and Nonviolence International. #Resist
Abdo Jabassini @syrianzo.bsky.social Damascene | Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow @EUI | CIVICA Postdoctoral Fellow @CEU |Adjunct Professor @Johns Hopkins | Political violence and civil war | Focusing on wartime and postwar southern Syria
Mahmud Musa @mahmudmusa.bsky.social Idlib, Syria
@mazouneh.bsky.social @mazouneh.bsky.social 
Bashar Deeb / بشار ديب @bdeeb.bsky.social Digital investigations @lhreports.bsky.social
Free Syria
He\him
Abbas عباس @abbaszead.bsky.social #Displaced, A Witness for the #SyrianRevolution, Working for the betterment of Syria, a loving father, aspire to be a journalist. #Syria #Idlib RT≠Endorsement
Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
Muhammad Najem @muhammadnajem.bsky.social I am Muhammed Najem. I am from the Eastern city of Ghouta in Syria ❤My friends,I'm so excited to announce that my book is available for pre-order now!
Abd Alhade Alani @abdalhadealani.bsky.social Syrian Cinematographer | Founder and Content Creator at Radyf.com
Syria Notes @syrianotes.org Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability.
Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908
Intersectional Syria @intersectsyria.bsky.social Resources on Syria and intentional, attentive and intersectional solidarity from free Syrians with causes of liberation across the world.
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net ❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And
(@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) 📸 Member in ( IFJ ) ( SJA )
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria and the Middle East.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
Yassin Swehat @yswehat.bsky.social Periodista y editor íbero-mesopotámico. Picheleiro en Berlín. Cofundador y editor ejecutivo de @aljumhuriya.bsky.social
Siria y países árabes, UE, izquierda posmelancólica, y memes.
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Hasret Kargın @hasretkargin.bsky.social Researcher/ Focus on Africa
https://open.substack.com/pub/hasretkargin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4mz338
Sub-Saharan Africa report every week.
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).
https://prisons.museum
https://linktr.ee/amer.mattr
Élise Daniaud Oudeh @elisedaniaudoudeh.bsky.social PhD candidate in politics on Russian presence in Syria/strategic narratives/social movements-associate researcher- Russian & Arabic speaker @uniLUISS @EUME
طالبة دكتوراه في العلوم السياسية - محللة سياسية- سوريا و روسيا
Embroidery and cats enthusiast 🍉
ISIS prisons museum - متحف سجون داعش @isisprisonsmuseum.bsky.social A digital museum exposing ISIS crimes for victims’ justice
متحف رقمي يوثق انتهاكات التنظيم في سوريا والعراق، في مسعى لتحقيق العدالة للضحايا
https://isisprisons.museum/ | https://linktr.ee/ISISPrisonsMuseum
Paola Salwan Daher @paolasalwandaher.bsky.social Senior Director for Collective Action @womendeliver.bsky.social; former @repro-rights.bsky.social @UrgentAct Board, blabs @hammamradio. Part-time writer, full-time sister comrade.
Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social Syrian political activist from #Daraa #Syria Freedom. Ya Hala 👋 8.12.2024
buymeacoffee.com/nedal
roza 🌱🌺 @missinchident.bsky.social she / her | 23 | @missinchident on twitter
Mark Weston @markweston19.bsky.social Researcher, policy consultant, immigrant. Author of The Saviour Fish: Life and Death on Africa's Greatest Lake - a Wanderlust and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, 2022. Based in Ghana. Sudanophile.
Tagreed Abdin @taggysudan.bsky.social 🇸🇩
Architect. Mother. Refugee.
#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan #ILoveSudan
a #KeepEyesOnSudan @ammkki.bsky.social I don’t really talk about anything besides Sudan
RaZaN @razzzan.bsky.social #keepeyesonsudan
🇸🇩 in 📌 Triangle, NC
🖱️Techie in Architecture📐
🌍💻 Aspiring Digital Nomad w/📷
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social Open source investigations consultant @ICC. Former @ICRC.org @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive overarching #osint chronically online http://emanel-sherbiny.com/ 📍 The Hague
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars.
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
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
Leila Nachawati @leilana.bsky.social Spanish-Syrian writer and researcher, devoted to social justice. I teach at Carlos III University. #CeasefireNow
MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.
Angelanashed @angelanashed.bsky.social I'm Singer, Songwriter, Artist. RnB / Soul music
Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com Writer from Texas
Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com
Books: A History of Heartache (2026), You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)
Tinea @tinea10.bsky.social Anarchist, aid worker, altermondialiste. Rooting for: agro-ecology, self-determination, and enough food for everybody. The Sahel and the Sonoran.
Lyes Tagziria @lyestagziria.bsky.social Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). Researcher of illicit economies and instability in West Africa & the Sahel. Lover of data, graphs and excels.
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
Jędrzej Czerep @jedrzejczerep.bsky.social Head of Middle East and Africa Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). African politics, society, culture.
Bokar Sangaré @bokarsangare.bsky.social PhD candidate, SciencePo ULB.
Sahel/Mali politics. Editorial board Afriquexxi.info & Benbere.org. Chroniqueur Sahel pour @Liberation.fr.
Mail : bokarsang@protonmail.com
Nina Wilen @ninawilen.bsky.social Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social Advancing African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building partnerships, and catalyzing solutions
John Lechner @johnalechner.bsky.social Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene
https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
Manelitux @manelitux.bsky.social Antropòleg treballant en Salut Pública i Acció Humanitària / Social anthropologist working in #PublicHealth #WASH #humanitarian.
Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social Associate Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Director at Human Rights Watch
Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social I research movements and markets (renewables, urban ag in Detroit, river conservation in Ireland) & corporate disinformation campaigns. UF & UW alum
Also: rock climber, forager, ceramicist, gardener, ADHD hobby collector
https://disinfonation.com
Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social Journalist. Al Jazeera. Drilled.
Previous: ABC (Australia). IPS UN correspondent.
www.lyndalrowlands.com
Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Monocle, host of Monocle Radio's The Foreign Desk and The Daily. Author of four scandalously under-rated books.
Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.
www.deensharp.com
Tess Pope @tesskp.bsky.social Media and comms officer at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Spend my days telling other peoples stories. Usual caveats.
Meron Estefanos @meron.bsky.social Dyslectic. Mother of two wonderful boys. HRD, journalist, researcher at @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Tweets about #Refugees #HumanRights #Eritrea #Africa #WithTheOpressed
Personal account
Meron Elias @meronel.bsky.social East Africa analyst @crisisgroup.org
📍🇰🇪
Petra Dvořáková @petunie.bsky.social reporter at @denikreferendum.cz
she/her