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Nir Hasson, نير حسون، ניר חסון @nirhasson.bsky.social עיתונאי. כתב "הארץ" בירושלים, כתב לענייני משבר האקלים, כותב גם על ארכיאולוגיה ישראלית. 
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
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Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance.
I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground.
Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .
Sky News @news.sky.com The full story, first. Free, wherever you get your news. 
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
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Sana Quadri | سناء قادري @sana25.bsky.social Writer, researcher and analyst on the political economy & international relations of the Arab Gulf and South Asia.
✍️ https://www.clippings.me/sanaquadri
📍Dubai | دبي
#FreePalestine #HandsOffSudan #MahsaAmini #StandWithKashmir
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
The Jerusalem Post @thejerusalempost.bsky.social Israel's English-language paper.
Delivering the need to know since 1932.
Newsletters: https://linkinbio.jpost.com/newsletters
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social Campaigning for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people. R/T does not equal endorsement
Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social Official account of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. We campaign for peace & justice for Palestinians in support of international law & human rights & against all racism. RT≠endorsement
Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social cultural organizing + production in solidarity with Palestine
amplifypalestine.org
Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social Archivist/Librarian, erstwhile Arabist, cinephile, certified Voight-Kampff test administrator, Antipope of Antifa.
https://boxd.it/5QN63
Doha/NYC
Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Theodora Sutcliffe @theodora.bsky.social Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel.
lynbw @lynbw.bsky.social visual artist: ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎
she/her
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Roland Allen approaches the end of Chapter XVI with velocity @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is available everywhere, and I'm writing a follow-up. Here for: writerly, bookish things; bicycles; notebooks; human intelligence.
Simon Mabon @profmabon.bsky.social Professor of International Politics, author, podcaster. Lancaster University. SEPAD.
Schism (Yale University Press)
The Struggle for Supremacy (Cambridge University Press)
Houses built on sand (Manchester University Press)
Saudi & Iran (IB Tauris)
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער. Writing on Jewish issues at www.toratalbion.org.uk
Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
Charlotte Bank @charlottebank.bsky.social Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
Co-director Art-Lab Berlin
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Jos Betts @josbetts.bsky.social Senior editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics/statistics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
WhatTheTrans.com
Navigation: #Podcast #Article #Opinion #Analysis #Interview #LiveReport #Protest #Action #Fundraiser #Research #Photography #UK #US #Japan #World
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social editor, migrantinsider.com
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
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.
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social earning ££££££££££ from cultural marxism for being gay, ASK ME HOW!
@ghaithabdulahad.bsky.social @ghaithabdulahad.bsky.social 
Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert
@ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit?
www.sophieherxheimer.com
www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com
(More settled on instagram)
TACC @tacc.org.uk TACC is an intersectional organisation started in 2024, dedicated to advocating for trans rights, addressing transphobia, and unofficial EHRC watchdog.
❤️Donate: http://alturl.com/ipg2h
🌴 https://linktr.ee/tacc_uk
Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Peter Beinart @peterbeinart.bsky.social CUNY, Jewish Currents, New York Times, MSNBC. Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Richard Trillo @richardtrillo.bsky.social East Africa Manager @ExpertAfrica. Travel writer (@RoughGuides Kenya, Madagascar, WAfrica) Grandad (Granddad?)
Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Rachel Kennedy @rachelkennedy.bsky.social Broke news for ages. Now live event madness. Mostly planning travels.
Rachel Fox @rachelfoxscot.bsky.social In Dundee, Scotland
https://slowlaneshuffle.blogspot.com/
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
Fiona McAuslan @fiona-mcauslan.bsky.social 
N. G. McBurney @ngmcburney.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller with a focus on printed books and manuscripts from the Muslim world, defined as broadly and inclusively as possible.
www.ngmcburney.com
Ciaran Buckley @ciaranbuckley.bsky.social Free range human, writer, teacher, storyteller.
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
Robin Dougherty @bintalbalad.bsky.social librarian etc.
Alex Sharpe @alexsharpe.bsky.social Professor University of Warwick. She/her 💚
📕We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism (2026)
📕David Bowie Outlaw (2022)
📕Sexual Intimacy & Gender Identity ‘Fraud’ (2018)
📕Foucault’s Monsters (2010)
📕Transgender Jurisprudence (2002)
Loot and Plunder @andrewheavens.bsky.social By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. DailyCannon.com owner.
The Trans Agenda records anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Heba Jayoosi @hjayoosi.bsky.social Autism, cats and occasional MENA delights.
PHD student @craeioe.bsky.social
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social In all our forms - bookshops in Gloucestershire, a festival or two, schools and libraries. Occasionally Hereward. Less often, Errol the dog.
Michael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social Researcher and editor | writings on cultural heritage, antiquities trade
Harry Davies @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social Investigations correspondent @theguardian.com
(harry.davies@theguardian.com or hd.gnm@proton.me) theguardian.com/tips
theguardian.com/profile/harry-davies
Nicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social Interested in journalism, literature, freedom of expression and human rights. Born in Jo’burg, now in London.
Noam Shelef @noamshelef.bsky.social For the most part, I drive carpools 🚗🏊. I'm also VP of Communications for @NewJewishNarrative.bsky.social
+972 Magazine @972mag.bsky.social We have moved to @972mag.com, follow us there to get updated on our latest publications!
Daniel Adamson @danieladamson.bsky.social Investigative documentary films for BBC World Service. Co-founding Editor & Exec Producer @ #BBCEye. Creator of BBC’s 1st visual investigations team. Building something new. @danielsilas on X
Daniel Gorman @dnlgorman.bsky.social art x human rights. Director of English PEN (@englishpen.bsky.social). Posts are my personal opinions
Katharina Bielenberg @katharinabberg.bsky.social European South Londoner, publisher/reader of everywhere, happy traveller, beekeeper, swimmer, walker, family person
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Lottie Gross @lottiegross.bsky.social 🌍 Travel writer
🐾 Author of dog-friendly travel books
✉️ Co-founder Talking Travel Writing on Substack
🐶 Servant to a Manchester Terrier
Wassim Al-Adel @wassimthedream.bsky.social British-Syrian writer of cheap novelettes. Runs on hummus & coffee. Used to write as @Maysaloon in a previous life (www.maysaloon.org). Published politics articles under pseudonyms with The Times & The Guardian.
Author Site: http://www.al-adel.co.uk
Amy Abdelnoor @amyabdelnoor.bsky.social Author, writer, teacher
EVER LAND coming 2026 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
Rep’d Sophie Lambert, C&W Agency
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Jonathan Buckley @jcbuckley.bsky.social Novelist
Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World. University of Edinburgh. Critical approaches to international law & human rights, Islamic law, feminist theory.
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social Founded in 1865 for the exploration of the Levant, and still supporting research there today.
5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom SE10 9FP
https://www.pef.org.uk/
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
@paulbloomfield.bsky.social @paulbloomfield.bsky.social 
The Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center @palestinecenter.bsky.social Nonprofit in Washington, D.C. educating the U.S. public & policymakers on Palestine and supporting Palestinian liberation through education, culture, arts, & advocacy. https://thejerusalemfund.org/
Kris @krisjustice.bsky.social 
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Tatevik Ayvazyan @tatevik.bsky.social Writer and Producer at Rebel Republic Films
Guest Editor at Wasafiri Magazine
Cofounder of Armenian Film Festival London
Board Member IALA | Azad Archives
https://linktr.ee/Tatevik_A 
Sana Goyal Kotecha @sanagoyal.bsky.social Editor & Publishing Director, Wasafiri magazine. Writing in The Guardian & elsewhere. PhD in literary prizes from SOAS, University of London. 2025 International Booker Prize judge. From Bombay, based in Birmingham, UK. She/her.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Prolix Priest @prolixpriest.bsky.social Yet another jobbing vicar. Crafty. Sings. Rescue pets with odd names/personalities. Hates fascists. Loves waffles. She/her.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Ramona Wadi @ramonawadi.bsky.social Freelance journalist & book reviewer writing about Palestine & Latin America; the latter focusing on Chile, Cuba & Argentina.
Open to commissions.
www.ramonawadi.com
Brandon Friedman @branfriedman.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, The Moshe Dayan Center (MDC), Tel Aviv University- M M Browers @mbrowers.bsky.social
Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative