Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social @trustfnd.com cofounder and ceo • board @republik.ch • past: Twitter, FT, SRF, NZZ • he/him • 🏳️🌈🇨🇭🇪🇺🇱🇧 • Berlin • https://trustfnd.com- N Nour Malaeb @nourmalaeb.com
Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social Fmr. Ambassador, Consul General of Israel in NY.
Chief of Staff/Foreign Policy Advisor to 2 PMs & 4 of Israel's best Foreign Ministers since 70CE.
Played for The Arsenal, 1979 FA Cup Final.
Writes, but not enough.
Does TV, but too much.
Tel Aviv, Israel
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
Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
emily @soupmuse.bsky.social lawyer. human rights and civilian protection. forever Arabic student.
conscientious objector to “AI”
our liberation is bound together.
Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, @Opinion.bloomberg.com. Political Analyst, MSNOW. Author: “TrumpNation.” Priors: New York Times, Wall Street Journal. www.timothylobrien.com
Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
Book
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
I'm also @steventdennis on the other places. Opinions mine. Email: sdennis17@bloomberg.net
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
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NYU's Kevorkian Center @nyukevo.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies at New York University
- MA Program in Near Eastern Studies
- Public Programs
- K-12 Outreach Teacher Training
- National Resource Center
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
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.
RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com “I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.”
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Read me at: www.rafiamahli.com
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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Kavitha Rajagopalan @kxraja.bsky.social Director, Research & Analysis @ccmnewmarkj.bsky.social. Writer. Previously Sr Fellow Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affrs. Migration + Cities, Asian digital diaspora. Pediatric transplant mom.
Hamid Mir @hamidmir.bsky.social Journalist survived bombs and bullet, fighting censorship and banned thrice in Pakistan.
Officially use only👇
twitter.com/hamidmirpak
Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee Journalist @decoherence.media using open sources to expose far-right networks
Other bylines @bellingcat.com @texasobserver.org
sammiejoe @sammiejoe.bsky.social [94:5] So, surely with hardship comes ease.
Also, 2:148
—and while you’re scrolling, don’t forget 49:6
@chuckmertz.bsky.social @chuckmertz.bsky.social 
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
Jonathan Piron @jonathanpiron.bsky.social Historien / Iran et espaces limitrophes / Écologie politique / Coordinateur du pôle recherche chez @etopia.bsky.social / Prof. Relations internationales contemporaines Helmo/Hepl / Chercheur associé au Grip
Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. East coaster in Ann Arbor. Internationalist. Any pronouns.
Marina Calculli 🇵🇸 @maricalc.bsky.social “No one can be free until everyone is free”
Adam Leventhal @adamleventhal.bsky.social Senior Writer & Broadcaster • Doc maker • Pod presenter • @theathleticFC
FWA / SJA / AIPS audio & written awards winner
Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafizr.bsky.social Back at work writing about breaking news at @newrepublic.com
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social Policy analyst/advisor. Newsletter: stephensemler.com
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social Professor of Economics @UniFAU | development economics, economic history, political economy, causal inference, Middle East | All opinions personal. sites.google.com/site/cbinzel/
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social Deputy editor of investigations, Guardian US. I'm an editor and reporter. Feminist. Mother of two. Years in DC, Rome, NYC, London. But mostly DC. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephanie-kirchgaessner
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him.
Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
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.
@saraaridi.bsky.social @saraaridi.bsky.social NYT editor working with The School of The New York Times. Occasional writer. AMEJA board member. Vocalist/guitarist of alt-rock band Everstill.
https://linktr.ee/saraaridi
The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social Non-partisan civic advocacy group working to improve our media and defend our democracy 🇺🇸 #PressFreedom #BlockTheMerger
mediaanddemocracyproject.org
All our links: linktr.ee/FixMediaNow
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
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Michael Luongo @michaelluongo.bsky.social TEDx Speaker, Novelist, Journalist, Editor, Photographer, Professor/Instructor, Author 16 books: education, travel, culture, human rights & more. PhD student researching tourism & conflict. NYC & Indiana. www.michaelluongo.com
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Sam Seder @samseder.bsky.social Host MajorityReport
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social reporter @motherjones.com etc | signal: @shurwitz.18, email: shurwitz@cir.org
Chikè Frankie Edozien @frankieedozien.bsky.social Journalist, African, Partner. Author. Lives of Great Men. Lambda Award Winner. http://linktr.ee/LivesOfGreatMen
Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social Law Prof. Interested in Intl law, national security, sanctions, & SWANA (aka the Middle East & North Africa).
Dima Samaro @dimasamaro.bsky.social Palestinian | Lawyer & Digital Rights Advocate | Tech, Law, & Society Nexus | Middle East & North Africa
Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social Professor of Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam | NWO VICI EnGendering Europe's 'Muslim Question' | Latest book: The Politics of Replacement https://tinyurl.com/5y6f6cbd 
Emily A. Gordon @emdashes.bsky.social Terminally online since LambdaMOO. Currently in Oakland, proud dual 🇨🇦
Support refugee families during the cold Connecticut winter: https://elenaslight.org
Cathy Otten @cathyotten.bsky.social Journalist, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at Rutgers. Director of the Journalism Initiative on Gender Peace and Security. Author 'With Ash on Their Faces' (OR 2017). Mancunian.
Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social Historian of awful things at Trinity College Dublin
Author of Famine Worlds
WWI, Lebanon, Famine and Disaster History
Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social Independent journalist covering Trmp, kleptocracy, far-right networks, OSINT, bylines Daily Beast, Guardian, Buzzfeed, Byline Times, footnote in Senate Intel Russia report, subscribe to http://NewsTRACS.com, tips: wendy@newstracs.com
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
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.
Joseph Gedeon @jgedeon.bsky.social @theguardian.com politics reporter صحفي.
joseph.gedeon@theguardian.com
Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social Journalist. Al Jazeera. Drilled.
Previous: ABC (Australia). IPS UN correspondent.
www.lyndalrowlands.com
Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social Professor, Media historian, New Yorker, author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television.
Sam Husseini - running for Congress @samhusseini.bsky.social #SamHusseini4Congress running in Maryland’s 4th district. Write at https://husseini.substack.com. Art at BeThatEmpty.org
Reinoud Leenders @leendersreinoud.bsky.social Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies, King's College London, Department of War Studies. https://www.reinoudleenders.org All views expressed are my own.- D Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social Journalism professor, former mid East correspondent for NPR, Substack author
The Markaz Review مجلة المركز @markaz-review.bsky.social 🍉 Stories from the SWANA region & Arab diaspora
🗣️ Freedom | Identity | Resistance | Expression
📚 Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Podcasts
🔗 New issue ⬇️
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Josh Taylor @joshtee.bsky.social Vice President, Global Outreach & Mobility, NYU (though posts are mine, please don't blame the University!)
Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.
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
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,…
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
Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social Investigations correspondent for The Guardian. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland and The Looting Machine. The truth will out, it just sometimes takes a while.
Stories: theguardian.com/profile/tom-burgis
Books: tomburgis.com
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social Prof in New York, studies broken media, capitalism and anti-colonial futures.
Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”; organizing w aaup-nyu
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
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social Astronomer, physicist, statistician, data analyst, open scientist. (Totally not at all the other David Hogg). I live on Lenape land.
Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social senior editor at Guardian US
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
Kate Brannen @k8brannen.bsky.social Non-Resident Journalism Fellow at NYU’s Reiss Center on Law and Security. Formerly: Foreign Affairs, Just Security, Foreign Policy, and Politico.
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Roba El Husseini ربى @robahus.bsky.social AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief
Former Syria /Lebanon correspondent- in love with Syria
Yale World Fellow
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Noura watermelon mafia thank you very much @sonourable.bsky.social Syrian 🇸🇾 🐈 🐈⬛ ♥️ 🤌🏼watermelon mafia 🍉 people have a right to exist, not states.
Free Falastine. 🇵🇸
Labeled as rude for being Arab and humanizing Palestinians by Bluesky
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
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
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 
Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social EVP at @cipolicy.bsky.social.
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Andrea Stanton @andrealstanton.bsky.social Professor of Islamic studies & Middle East historian, University of Denver.
Research foci: digital Islam, Mandate Palestine, Arab-world radio.
Twin mama. Wordy by nature.
Brenda Elsey @brendaelsey.bsky.social Prof and Historian of politics, gender, and pop culture esp fútbol in LatAm. Views expressed are my own. Co-host www.burnitalldownpod.com; anti-discrimination work with www.farenet.org; she/her, books on gender and sport: https://utpress.utexas.edu