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Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social Columnist at the Washington Post. Research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. Co-host of Wisdom of Crowds.
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Suzanne Maloney @suzannemaloney.bsky.social VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Borzou Daragahi @borzou.bsky.social Journalist, writer, broadcaster.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
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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.
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Carlotta Gall @carlottagall.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent, The New York Times - London, Ukraine, Istanbul, MENA, AfPak. Author - "The Wrong Enemy" & "Chechnya".
Carolyn Barnett @cbarns.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ University of Arizona SGPP. MENA politics, gender, public opinion, social policy, pol econ of development.
Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
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
@kingsalman.bsky.social @kingsalman.bsky.social احب وطني ومليكي 🇸🇦- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
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Volker Perthes @perthes.bsky.social Scholar-Speaker-Advisor. Visiting Fellow and former CEO (2005-2020) Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
Former UN Under-Secretary-General (2021-March 2024), SRSG for Sudan (2021-2023).
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
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Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own. - A @alarabiyabrk.bsky.social @alarabiyabrk.bsky.social
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Richard Nephew @richardmnephew.bsky.social Senior Research Scholar at Columbia U. Former Anti-Corruption Coordinator at Dept of State (among other things), White House and Dept of Energy. Personal acct. Author of "The Art of Sanctions" (2018)
Adam Baron @adammbaron.bsky.social Former niche social media personality. Baltimorean. Calabrese. Aspiring gadfly.
Future Security Program Fellow, @newamerica.org; Advisor on Yemen and the Gulf, @hdcentre.org; obituary writer, British-Yemeni Society Journal.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes.bsky.social New York Times intelligence reporter. 
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Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social New York Times reporter
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Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
Joost Hiltermann @joosthiltermann.bsky.social MENA Program Director @crisisgroup. Conflict mitigation, human rights, good food. Author of "The Resurrected," a novel (forthcoming 2025). 
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
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Mark Mazzetti @markmazzetti.bsky.social Washington Correspondent, The New York Times. Author, "The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth," and currently writing a book about the Middle East. Adjunct professor, Duke University.
Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social Senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO
Peter Salisbury @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social Political economy of war and peace. Probably parenting.
Jon Hillman @hillmanje.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Former advisor to Secretaries of Commerce, State, and USTR. Author, THE DIGITAL SILK ROAD: http://bit.ly/ChinaDSR
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Gordon Gray @ambgordongray.bsky.social Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Former career diplomat. RPCV Morocco. Re-posts ≠ endorsements.
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AliVaez.bsky.social @alivaez.bsky.social Director of #Iran Project & Senior Advisor @CrisisGroup; Adjunct Prof @Georgetown; Fellow @FPI_SAIS; Ex @UNDPPA @FAScientists @Harvard
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Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
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James Montague @jamespiotr.bsky.social Journalist and father to a super intelligent alien queen. Author of five books: Engulfed, 1312, The Billionaires Club, Thirty One Nil, When Friday Comes. Co-founder of Delayed Gratification. https://linktr.ee/jamespiotr
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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.
Chris Blanchard @cmblanchard.bsky.social Citizen. MENA Analyst on a Hill. Objectively speaking. Views expressed are my own.
Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University | Wesleyan Alumn | Mixed Methods, MENA Politics
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
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