Laura Vidal @elevidalbe.bsky.social Researcher in DigiRights, FoE & Interculturality. Working as Americas editor for IFEX and Comms lead at Digital Action.
I share ideas that pop during and between projects/readings.
Currently curating analysis and testimonies about Venezuela.
SP/EN/FR
Joakim Parslow @joakimparslow.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies/ modern Turkey at the University of Copenhagen, but primarily employed by two little kids. Turkish law, STS, intellectual history. 
Farrah Fazal @farrahfazal.bsky.social 📺Doc Producer/Director | EP
🎤Journalist: former war correspondent, fascism, race, politics, disinfo, extremism, cults, immigration, US-MX border
♥️Radical Love
🕊️”Truthful not neutral”
🌍US| AFRICA|UK|CAN|MIDDLE EAST
✊🏽SAG-AFTRA | 9 EMMYS
🦠Lyme warrior
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
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social He/Him, Data Waterbender. 🇮🇶🇬🇧🇺🇸Kurdish Muslim. 🍅 approved critic. Words @ The Nerds of Color, But Why Tho?, io9, The New Arab, Nerdist. Host of The Middle Geeks Podcast. Views do not represent my employer. Pic by SangledHere
https://www.swarasalih.com/
Rémi Fuhrmann @remi-fuhrmann.bsky.social PhD candiate in Law & teaching assistant | University of Glasgow
International Law - Legal History - Civil and Colonial Wars - IHL - Colonialism
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/remifuhrmann/
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social cultural organizing + production in solidarity with Palestine
amplifypalestine.org
Marion Zahar @marionzhr.bsky.social Doctorante @SciencePo_UdeM | Co-founder @RevueSaha | Revolutions | Mobilizations | Middle East | Lebanon | 🍉
Frank Deale @fdeale.bsky.social Professor of Law, Cuny Law School; former Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
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!
Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social Veni, Vidi and then I had an espresso
Defund military. Anti-war.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🍉
Hayder Al Shakeri @haydersh.bsky.social Research Fellow @ChathamHouse @CH_MENAP. Cautiously optimistic 🇮🇶 @AUB_Lebanon @SOAS. All views are my own. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
Prof. Sajida Jalalzai 🍉 @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University who thinks, writes, and teaches about Islam in N.A., gender, race, power, and some other stuff. All opinions are my own. 🍉
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
Celephais @celephais77.bsky.social Despair is a privilege, do not fall into it.
☭ 🏴🔻🇵🇸
روح الروح في فلسطين.
Follow on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/celephais
Kamran Rastegar @krastegar.bsky.social Literature • Cinema • Music • Politics • Middle East
Lama Mourad @lmourad.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CU_NPSIA
| migration, local governance, Middle East politics, Lebanon, research ethics | #FirstGen | she/her | Personal account & opinions
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Yunes @yunees.bsky.social 
Karena Avedissian @karena1.bsky.social Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
@spellboundbyart.bsky.social @spellboundbyart.bsky.social 
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
Judith Hoppermann @jhoppermann.bsky.social PhD Candidate @soasuni.bsky.social | Forced Migration & IR in MENA | Prev. @uni-freiburg.de
Richard Wallace @richardjwallace.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, IR, Peace & Conflict Studies | Focus on Politics, Religion, Violence in MENA & South Asia | Substack (The Old Quarter): https://bit.ly/46kjJ5X
ranwa @ranwa.bsky.social Arab African woman, mother. Founder of Arab Digital Expression Foundation. Engaged in progressive educational methodologies in art, technology, media for transformative justice and community mobilisation and engagement 
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
The Parallel Effect Podcast @theparalleleffect.bsky.social The world we inhabit is not inevitable.
This is your portal into worlds that might have been, inspiring the world we want to build.
Subscribe for free here:
https://tinyurl.com/reimaginingpossibilities
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Emily K. M. Scott @emilykmscott.bsky.social Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org
Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
Director @MSP-Archive.bsky.social
🇨🇵🇮🇪 🇪🇺
- LLM University of Galway
- Blue Shield Ireland @blueshield-ireland.bsky.social
- Transitional Justice, CPP, Human Rights, Conflict and Archives
Gwen Varley @gwenvarley.bsky.social Researcher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Gender, agriculture, food, politics
(she/her)
Kerry Mead 🍉 @kerrymead.bsky.social I'm sorry, I don't know my personality type.
Writing memoir, essays, fiction, place, & neurodivergence. Curae Prize '23 & Bristol Short Story Prize '25 shortlisted.
#ADHD. Complete lefty.
linktr.ee/kerrymeadwriter
Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Professor at Political Science, Aarhus University
🔍 International Relations | Middle East | social movements | sectarianism | labour | diaspora | focus on 🇱🇧, 🇮🇶 and 🇪🇺.
Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social Wildlife & fantasy artist • BIRDS •
I loves plants, oil painting, sticks I find, moss, a neat rock.
They/Them • I'm shy, weird, furry, got them chronic illness. A bowl of neurodivergent soup ∞🌈
Anti-GenAI
Personal site: featherdust.com
National Human Rights Commission - Lebanon @nhrclb.bsky.social The National Human Rights Commission including the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. NHRC-CPT | Lebanon
https://en.nhrclb.org/
الهيئة الوطنية لحقوق الإنسان المتضمنة لجنة الوقاية من التعذيب | لبنان
https://nhrclb.org/
Gab ~ جبريل @gab-bld.bsky.social Journaliste صحافي chez L’Orient-Le Jour 🇱🇧🗞
Beirut📍
Andrea @teachbk.bsky.social public school educator. she/her
fan of art, coffee & liberation. nyc
فلسطين حرة
Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم @fadahjassem.bsky.social Head of Data Visualisation 📊@TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi
#Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists)
(Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
SPNL @spnlorg.bsky.social Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon – SPNL is the national partner for BirdLife International
https://www.spnl.org/
@oslm.bsky.social @oslm.bsky.social 
Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social Music and music technology journalist, composer and electronic artist/dj. I make cdm.link, work on the meeblip.com synth, and cover creative technologies. Activist. Lebanese-American background, came from Kentucky, now in Berlin.
Alainna Liloia @missalainneous.bsky.social PhD in Middle East Studies. Research on transnational feminism, women and migrant workers in the Arab Gulf. Skeets are cries for help.
weird little whale guy @tumblesweed.bsky.social dial-up internet old. lived in a lot of places. currently in Waponahki community. still covid cautious. ex-academic rhetoric and writing phd. mixed white-privileged yoeme diaspora "pretendian." child of the watch. stone and sky.
Marguerite Dabaie/مارغريت دباعي/ダバ-イ マルガリ-ト @mrrg.bsky.social ⭐they/them
⭐ www.mdabaie.com
⭐🇵🇸🇺🇲 comix creator in 🇯🇵
⭐Drew LEGENDS IN THE HEIGHTS (https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/legends-in-the-heights/) & THE HOOKAH GIRL
⭐️Rep: Shena Wolf at KO Media
⭐English OK, 日本語 OK (Regional Janglish champion)
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.
Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social Newsletter: India Inside Out || Non-Resident Visiting Scholar & Managing Editor, CASI, University of Pennsylvania || 📍Cairo, Egypt
rohanv on Twitter
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com
https://www.newarab.com/
Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social Scottish Green Party MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Contact me on kate.nevens.msp@parliament.scot
Content promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Kate Nevens, both at 19b Graham Street, Ed, EH6 5QN
Heather Jaber @heatherjaber.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern in Qatar. PhD at Annenberg UPenn. Graduate of AUB in Lebanon. Studying affect/emotion, digital media, and the MENA.
Lady of the Tomb @sakhmet.bsky.social Egyptian goddess of war, plague, healing, & storms.
In order to stay on my good side, offer me food, play music, burn incense, and whisper your prayers into the ears of cat mummies.
crochet, epidemiology, women's soccer, & angry eldest daughter vibes 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇪🇬
Santiago lyon @slyon66.bsky.social Formerly fighting mis/disinformation with the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe. Before that, award-winning photojournalist and media executive at Reuters & AP. Opinions are my own.
Erika McCallion @erkmcc.bsky.social Toronto / Mississauga, Canada | she/her | politicizes everything and generally leftist | Political Organizer | Dyslexic, ADHD | obsessed with Podcasts | only child still learning to share
A. A. Brooks 🌻🍉 @aabrooks19.bsky.social Teacher passionate about deconstructing russian imperialism, and white supremacy in the US. He/him. Protect 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Lives, Black Lives Matter
Micha Tobia @michatobia.bsky.social Editorial Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social | Heart and mind in Beirut
Ash @thehumanglostik.bsky.social from Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime!
they/them. icon made with @SAGRAVIART 's picrew on twt
posting from Treaty 8 land. i like animal crossing, cross-stitch, lizards, and dismantling the patriarchy :)
@melissaajamian.bsky.social @melissaajamian.bsky.social 
Simon Walid Assaf @simonassaf.bsky.social Climate activist & revolutionary socialist. At home in Beirut & London. Commissioning editor at The Public Source. https://thepublicsource.org/ Contributor at International Socialism journal https://isj.org.uk/
Poppy Vera @poppyvera.bsky.social Actor
Margari Aziza Hill @margariaziza.bsky.social Educator | Culture Change Strategist | Consultant | Writer | Wild Reverend Mother Writer
Links: https://msha.ke/margari
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
Katie MacDonald @ktmacd.bsky.social Critical feminist and researcher on public housing and transnational encounters. 🍉
Christophe Maroun 🐌 @chrismaroun.bsky.social Political Ecology, Agroecology, Food Sovereignty
From Beirut, Lebanon
Based in Montréal, Canada
Mohammed R. Mhawish @mohamhawish.bsky.social Writer and journalist from Gaza City.
Tiberius @ecomarxi.bsky.social We demand dignity, liberation & self-determination for all people 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩 Views my own ecomarxi.substack.com ✍️
Alex Lubin @a-lubin.bsky.social Professor of African American Studies and History working in central PA. Author of Never-Ending War on Terror (UC Press); Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro Arab Political Imaginary (UNC Press); etc.
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Rebecca Selberg @rebeccaselberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology & Gender Studies, Lund University; researcher Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden. Co-chair ESA Research Network 14 Gender relations in the labor market & the welfare state. Writer, Aftonbladet & Sydsvenskan.
Ram @dangram.bsky.social Pessimist in thought, optimist in action
Don't follow me, I'll only disappoint you
@assiletoufaily.bsky.social @assiletoufaily.bsky.social 
Caprisun @thatcaprisun.bsky.social Escaped from the 🐦 trying to find the 🦋
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Clare Coffey 🦋 @coffeeeeee.bsky.social Can we make it make sense with rhymes? #gazaisnotforsale #resist #lakeontario
Adith W. Pradipta 🇵🇸 @adith.bsky.social Currently, a Twitter user refugee. Software dev working and living in Tokyo. #FreePalestine
Finlay @finlayy.bsky.social 26, they/them
republican-communist
my soapbox is only so tall | 🏴
Maja Janmyr @myrmek.bsky.social
Humanitarianism & refugees, past & present.
Prof. International Migration Law, University of Oslo. Also Senior Visiting Fellow, Lebanese American University & Associate Fellow, American University of Beirut.
Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com He/him. Artist/writer Korean-Canadian watching movies and drawing comics. ✨Verified AI Hater✨ No NFT neither. Art Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:itmi2hs62k7t2astrwc4pedv/feed/aaafmvofbucda
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/inkskratch
Jamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social Aging songster, scenester, vatic scop, tea enjoyer, geek. Sometimes bird pix.
Blow up your TV. Free Palestine. he/hmm
https://lovedeathcville.com
Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social Associate professor of IR at Oslo New University College (ONH). Fulbright, UWC, and UVa alumna. Fall’24 Fulbright Visiting Scholar @ClementsCenter UT Austin
A K K A S 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @hokkolorob.bsky.social • AuDHD • Cat mum • Socialist • He/him
Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
In the archives. Travelling Fifer.
She/her. Views own.
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Sébastien Bachelet @sebbachelet.bsky.social Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
Jerry Iannelli @jerryiannelli.bsky.social They/he/any 🏳️⚧️
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
غراب غريب عجيب @strangecrow.bsky.social Arab Queer Artist ✨|Slow Art. Check out my work under the Media tab 👇. If you would like to support me, consider supporting:
- tinyurl.com/mr2umdrs
- https://linktr.ee/qmaleb
Marc Farra @marcfarra.bsky.social I write code and make hot sauce in Beirut.
Director of chess things at keshmat.org
Engineer at @developmentseed.org
Send me an interesting map or recipe!
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding).
http://instagram.com/josephwillits/
https://linktr.ee/josephwillits
Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament.
From between Junction 12/13 of the M6.
Not funny, but tweets my own.
Hassan3 @hassan3.bsky.social I edit videos about how the world sucks.
Amar Mustafa | امار مصطفى @amarmustafa.bsky.social Co-founder of @atharmagazine and @banatarchive | Historian | MA student at @MonashPolsIR | own views, RT & likes ≠ Endorse
Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social Anarcho-anxious. Writer and Video Essayist from Beirut.
Latest video essay - Israel's Long War on Lebanon: https://youtu.be/Dkcwc0XfvTk
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aymanmak
Lara Bitar @larajbitar.bsky.social media worker & organizer
🗞️ founding editor of Beirut-based publication @thepublicsource.bsky.social
📃 Pitch me: http://thepublicsource.org/write
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.