Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social صعلوك الادب
Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social ESRC postdoctoral fellow @the University of Exeter |Writing on Political Economy of Gender, Race, Social Reproduction, Sanctions, War| The Middle East, Iran
Steve Zorn @cvfpartnerships.bsky.social Author, “Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845;” ex-union organizer, journalist, Papua New Guinea and UN gov’t official, lawyer and law prof, horse racing insider. Currently writing about Drogheda/Cromwell’s Irish campaign 1649-50. 🇵🇸🇵🇬🇮🇪🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
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)
Ziad Abu-Rish @ziadaburish.bsky.social مؤرخ. محرّر. رقّاص
Historian | Editor | Dancer
Author of "The State of Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Nate George @ngeorge00.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. My views are my own, not my institution’s.
Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social Building a future beyond nuclear fear. We aim to reduce and eventually eliminate #nuclearweapons & promote stability where they exist. 
IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social In Congress and at the ballot box, we fight for Palestinian freedom and human rights for all. Affiliated organization of @theimeu.bsky.social
WEBINAR: https://imeupolicy.org/bookclub
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social House Arab
migrant academic in the low countries
Critical theory, cultural studies, still can’t call it west asia with a str8 face
He/they
views my own and not my employers
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Dhouha Djerbi @dhouha-djerbi.bsky.social PhD candidate in Polisci @ Geneva Graduate Institute | Interest in rural conflict, women's movements, Tunisian politics, research methods.
تونس & Genève
Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social environmental and political anthropologist
@rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social 
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University @islamicstudies.stanford.edu The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies is the central forum for study and research of Islam and Islamicate societies and communities at Stanford University.
@amahlbishara.bsky.social @amahlbishara.bsky.social 
Toby Craig Jones @tobycjones.bsky.social Professor, Middle East History, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Gulf, Rutgers University, Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
@journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
https://linktr.ee/spectrejournal
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
VJ Um Amel (Laila Shereen Sakr) @vjumamel.bsky.social Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara
https://vjumamel.com
Can Aciksoz @canaciksoz.bsky.social Anthropologist, author of Sacrificial Limbs
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sacrificial-limbs/paper
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/
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.
The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social Your go-to for facts, sources & untold stories on all things #Palestine, #Palestinians & #PalestinianAmericans— politics, culture & activism. Connecting journalists with experts: info@imeu.org. Sister org of @imeupolicy.bsky.social
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
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social Your Lady of Chaos (Theory) | Cassandra of Geopolitics | MENA - Nazis - ISIS - political violence - etc. | @MsEntropy on all platforms
https://substack.com/@msentropy
Deborah Starr @debastarr.bsky.social 
LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian 
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
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.
Maryam Alemzadeh @maryamalem.bsky.social Assoc. prof. at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Writing a book on Iran's Revolutionary Guards
@helenlackner.bsky.social @helenlackner.bsky.social 
Nabil Al-Tikriti @nabilal-tikriti.bsky.social 
Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social Judaism, politics, music, basketball, New York City
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Robert Steele @robsteele.bsky.social Historian of modern Iran at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/- A @annemeneley.bsky.social @annemeneley.bsky.social
James Ketterer @jpketterer.bsky.social Director of Extension Programs & Professor of Practice, American University of Armenia | Diplomacy & Foreign Policy | International Development | Continuing Education | International Education | Middle East & North Africa | Jazz | Drummer | Baseball
Ayça Alemdaroğlu @makrevis.bsky.social sakin sakin... Sociologist | Program on Turkey @ Stanford | MERIP Edcomm | PRIO Global Fellow | 🎾⛵️🚲
Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social Historian | Int'l history, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at U. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World" | Views my own.
Asim Qureshi @asimqureshi.bsky.social Research Director at CAGE International. Author of Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation Disappearance (2009), A Virtue of Disobedience (2019), When Only God Can See: The Faith Muslim Political Prisoners (2024); and editor of I Refuse to Condemn (2020).
M Ra @mitrara.bsky.social 
Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.
www.deensharp.com
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social Author of A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (more interesting than it sounds)-academia escapee-writer-anthropologist-editor-mover of words. Dogless dog lover. Free Palestine. 
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Elliott Colla @abumrouj.bsky.social المخوزق يشتم السلطان
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
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social My animal companions are Benji (cat) and Chester (dog)
omnia khalil أمنية خليل @omniakhalil.bsky.social Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
Curtis Ryan @curtisryan.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University. IR. Middle East politics. Music fanatic. A bit too obsessed with Jordan and with Arab and Middle East alliances and politics.
Section Chair, APSA Middle East and North African Politics section.
Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social Scholar, mother, dancer, boxer, home chef, and lover of cocktails, hard core, and dark chocolate; Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Middle East politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system. We demand equality, justice & a thriving future for all #CeasefireNOW https://linktr.ee/ifnotnoworg
Muriam Haleh Davis @muriamhalehdavis.bsky.social Historian of 🇩🇿
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 
Waleed Hazbun @whazbun.bsky.social IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓🏆See 👉🏼 https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html
and see my Linktree 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/arang.keshavarzian
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025) • omarcheta.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...
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East 
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
Ian M Hartshorn @ianmhartshorn.com Associate Prof Political Science. Current project: labor solidarity after trade liberalization. Cases and texts, international and domestic institutions, qualitative data. Part-time rancher, with one head of (cat)tle. VP of NFA-UNR. Join your union!
Christopher Silver @christophersilver.bsky.social Historian, author of Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (SUP, 2022), collector of records, associate professor of Jewish history and culture at McGill University, curator of gharamophone.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
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Marya Hannun @maryahannun.bsky.social Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. 
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
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