Thomas Sorlie @thomassorlie.bsky.social Writing • Public Speaking • Consulting
Africa • Middle East • Islam
Dept. of Def, al-Hurra TV, VOA, Today's Zaman
Former Student of Imam at Darrus Salam, ATL, GA
MA in Islamic Studies - UGA
Part-time film snob.🎥🎬
Former IATSE Focus Puller.
Wisconsin, USA
Going Green @f-edup12.bsky.social Interested in Green politics. Nuclear power sceptic.
Nora Renard @nrenard.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Former Deputy Senior Liaison Officer to the 🇺🇸 | Intelligence-National Security SME | RT≠Endorsement | Views my own
Abdullah Mahmood @abdullahmahmood.bsky.social - I would prefer not to.
Crissie Hair @casperd.bsky.social Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist
Rebeldiletante @rebeldiletante.bsky.social 
@londoncaat.bsky.social @londoncaat.bsky.social 
Elana DeLozier @elanagulf.bsky.social Executive Director, The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs || Adjunct Faculty, UVA || #Yemen #Gulf #Nuke
@riles138.bsky.social @riles138.bsky.social 
@broozie.bsky.social @broozie.bsky.social 
Isabel Wright @isabelwright.bsky.social She / Her / Elle Posts = my own
Mild alarmist --> Quickly moving towards full alarmist. Rural 🔵 in a 🔴 State + SCIENCE + Bees + Vaccinated + Libraries + 🇺🇦 + 🇨🇦 + 🇬🇱 + 🇧🇪 #covidAware #N95 #KN95 DM 🟰 Blocked
@verywordyv.bsky.social @verywordyv.bsky.social 
ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social ALQST is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that works to defend human rights in Saudi Arabia. https://alqst.org/en
Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapist • Interested in Anxiety, Depression, Somatic Therapy, Mental Health, Well Being & Mindfulness • Art, Literature, Theatre & Film Aficionado • Human Rights & Social Justice.
Dr. Gudrun Wacker @gudrun-wacker.bsky.social Research Division Asia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
trying to make sense of China and the Indo-Pacific or life, the universe and everything
Rowan Wilkinson @rowanwilkinson.bsky.social Tech, geopolitics and development policy. Currently at
@chathamhouse.bsky.social
🌍 All views are my own
Gina Kaufmann @ginak.bsky.social Journalist-reader-writer-watcher-worrier-joker
Future librarian
Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Yomna ElSharony @kamunaskies.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Cornell University; thinking and writing about human-nature temporalities, critical logistics and infrastructure studies, and the political economy of maritime transportation and seaports.
Mohammed Al-husari @m-alhusari.bsky.social LSE Human Rights
Investigating Syria war crimes for SBC
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Keith White @keithwhite832.bsky.social HTX Age 44, a huge sports fan, political nerd, Anti Trump, Anti Racist, pro freedom, pro women's rights and pro porn at times. #BLM #BIPOC African American, Native American and Afro Latino. x.com/keithwhite346
@yaraelshemy.bsky.social @yaraelshemy.bsky.social 
Annie Shiel @annieshiel.bsky.social US Director at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC). She/her. Views mine, RT ≠ endorsement.
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
Dima Samaro @dimasamaro.bsky.social Palestinian | Lawyer & Digital Rights Advocate | Tech, Law, & Society Nexus | Middle East & North Africa
Jelnane Jalon Jr @jelnane.bsky.social A Journalist who seeks the truth and works in exposing corruptions and political movements that affect the world!
https://maghrebi.org/author/aja/
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Kate Bunn @katebunn.bsky.social Reporter for online newspaper, Maghrebi.org, focusing on news from the Sahel region.
Joshua Shangobiyi @joshuashangobiyi.bsky.social Writer | Recent Graduate (BA in International Relations and Politics)
Leon Kouider @leonkouider.bsky.social Journalist at Maghrebi.org specialising in Sudan and Egypt.
Danielle Summer @daniellesummer.bsky.social Freelance Foreign Correspondent with a focus on women’s rights and foreign affairs.
Paul Reddy @paul-reddy.bsky.social Vegan, Geologist, Electrical & Mechanical Engineer, Environmentalist, Socialist.
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect @globalr2p.org Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Working to advance #R2P and end the commission of mass atrocity crimes.
Website: https://www.globalr2p.org/
Samar Elhussieny @selhussieny.bsky.social #HumanRights defender and researcher| Executive Director @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social Forum Prev| Associate manager @Sutherlandcorp | Master’s @unitartu |MENA coordinator| @CFWIJ |
Chantal Joris @chantal137.bsky.social International Human Rights Lawyer, Senior Legal Officer @ARTICLE 19
Cate @crnfva.bsky.social 
Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social 🌍 Daily Human Rights Content 📊⚖️
Center for Victims of Torture @cvt.org Center for Victims of Torture (CVT): Healing the wounds of torture globally, strengthening healers & human rights defenders, advocating to end #torture. www.cvt.org
@brightey.bsky.social @brightey.bsky.social 🌱
Learning 🇱🇻
Investigative journalist
Strongly pro 🇺🇦
Ryuma Sakamoto 🍉 @ryuma21.bsky.social Survivor ✝️
Independent Journalist & Human Rights Activist
Survived numerous assassination attempts since Feb 2014 (Still ongoing)
Zero formal education, but 100% built on real-world experience
كونوا بخير يا إخوتي
🇯🇵 https://linktr.ee/Ryuma2112 exonerated
Yasmina Benslimane @yasbens.bsky.social feminist activist, advisor & consultant
Ahmed Aboulenein @aaboulenein.bsky.social Covering U.S. health & pharma policy in DC for @Reuters.com. Previously based in Iraq, Egypt. He/him. #COYS. Tips: ahmed.aboulenein@tr.com http://SeeDisclaimer.com
ash @ashvin.bsky.social they/them
eternal neophyte | 25 | talking to these creatures | aspiring (otaku + computer) philosopher
@egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social المنبر هو تجمع مستقل للمدافعين والمدافعات عن حقوق الإنسان المصريين بهدف تقديم مقاربات للديمقراطية وسيادة القانون تستند علي حقوق الإنسان والقانون الدولي في مصر
🇺🇬🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢 🅢🅢🅐🅛🅘 🇷🇼 @chrisssali2024.bsky.social Why destroy our fragile #climate just to satisfy fossil fuel profit margins when we can go green save life on Earth #StopFossilFuelsSubsidies #United4ClimateJustice #UnitedAgainstPlasticPollution @ucjglobal.bsky.social @stopfossilsubs.bsky.social
Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC @boellus.bsky.social Washington, DC office of @boell.de. We promote democracy, human rights, gender equality, and climate action through international dialogue and exchange.
us.boell.org
Ro Mayyu Islam @romayyuislam.bsky.social Founder @rgprn.bsky.social Political Analysts! Human Rights Activists! Researcher.
Global Ambassador Fellowship: International Council on Human Rights, Peace and Politics/ Research Fellow : Displaced
Gohary @ircpresident.bsky.social Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. @GlobalVoices.org Services Lead and Board Member. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering. Find me at https://mohamedelgohary.com
Sarah Hamza @sarah7amza.bsky.social Egyptian human rights defender | Data scientist & legal researcher | #MENA focus
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Eng. Haifa Shawkat @haifa8.bsky.social Representative of the Arab-European Center for Human Rights and International Law (Oslo) in Yemen
Founder of the Wings of Peace Charitable Foundation
Recipient of the 2023 Exceptional Young Woman for Peace Award from the American PTP Organization
Martin Jay @martinrjay.bsky.social Owner of maghrebi.org, ex award winning journalist with big media, loves dogs, lives on the edge of the sahara. Fired by CNN for being a good journalist. The truth really is easier to remember.
I'm not an 'impersonator' as BSK has labelled me ffs
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
Ethiopia Beyond @talksmart.bsky.social Exploring the untold beauty, culture, history, innovation, and spirit of Ethiopia.
Sharing authentic stories, breathtaking places, people, traditions, and the new face of Africa’s rising destination.
From ancient civilizations to modern transformation — E
Amr Magdi @amrmagdi.bsky.social Every act of telling the truth is a stride towards the collective healing of a society, oppressed and oppressors.
أحلامُنا أحلى مِنْ أحلامِهم
Researcher and writer: MENA region, human rights, secularism, discursive power.
Currently at @hrw.org
Jasmine🍂 @jasmine454.bsky.social غباء منك أن تعيش حزيناً من اجل شخص يعيش حياته بكل سّعادة .
Avenida Corrientes @avenidacorrientes.bsky.social Factoría de pop electrónico, haciendo música desde 1990.
Sevilla. Málaga. Buenos Aires 🏳️🌈
#Synthpop #HelpRefugees
https://open.spotify.com/artist/29qnyG3YLfDeppSmCiXUiR?si=6NCZPtoYSfmMTtTFQXAoOA
As Told By A Ginger @skyeeyks.bsky.social 🇵🇸🇾🇪🇨🇩🇸🇩🇭🇹🇵🇷
they/them/she/her
adult, spouse, parent
somewhere on Native land
صمود 🧿 sumūd
not just peace, instead:
🔻 Liberation For All ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿- Y Yassin Elsherif @yassinelsherif.bsky.social
Olah🌻🌞 @olahzogby.bsky.social Researcher. Anti-Human Trafficking Advocate. Mom.Though I’m different from you, perhaps we’ve sth in common. Ignorance motivated me to seek knowledge. Evil taught me that virtue is smart. Hatred showed me what love could do. A fellow human being like you!
Drewery Dyke @drewerydyke.bsky.social Middle East, governance, human rights; not keen on asymmetric power structures; more so justice. Wannabe sociologist. Senior Fellow @FPCThinkTank; Salam for Democracy and Human Rights. From Winnipeg 🇨🇦; now in Hackney 🇬🇧.Banner - the family 🐈, Herbert.
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.
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
#LoudORCHID @ladyslipperhere.bsky.social #LadySlipperHERE #OrchidS
#PHOTOGRAPHERSofBlueSKY 🦋
#LoudORCHID 😱 #OrchiD #FLoWerS
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I make & #repost #MEMES #MEME
& tend 2 #post PHOTOGRAPHERs<
Morph #Avatars or handles sometimes 🏴☠️🚩
Award-Winning #FLOWER Photographer
>👁️Support ORCAS•TheARTS•Marijuana💨
Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social She/Her Dreamer of dreams, socialist and sociable. Nature, crochet, rewilding, history and animals hold my interest. Former migrant, now back in Ireland.
Truth is the daughter of time.
Derek @sparbtastic.bsky.social Assoc Prof Digital Rhetorics at ISU | Memetic Rhetorics (2023)
YourAnonRiots 🐈⬛🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social In the name of all #digital warriors, we warriors promise to participate in the #Anonymous. #HackThePlanet #AnonOps #infosec #Antifa 🇵🇸 Support For #МSF
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🔗
https://anonymous-france.info/
#CyberSecurity & #AnonNews
https://twitter.com/YourAnonRiots
Reiss Center on Law and Security @rcls-nyu.bsky.social Official Bluesky of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law | Reposts ≠ Endorsements
Visit: lawandsecurity.org/
Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
Shelley Deane @shelleydeane.bsky.social 
y duman @yduman.bsky.social 
“A republic, if you can keep it.” @silverliningunited.bsky.social Everything shared here is rooted in the Constitution and nonviolent civic resistance. This is about restoring democratic norms. Withdrawal of consent means refusing unlawful abuses of power, peacefully. That’s how free people protect democracy.
Noam Shelef @noamshelef.bsky.social For the most part, I drive carpools 🚗🏊. I'm also VP of Communications for @NewJewishNarrative.bsky.social
@little-bear-1.bsky.social @little-bear-1.bsky.social 
ICNL @icnl.bsky.social The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law works to improve the digital and legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation around the world. ⚖️ www.icnl.org
Elizabeth 🌸🪻 @roseate-spoonbill8.bsky.social Novice Birder 🐦 and gardener 🪴
Coastal Prairie Conservancy and NPAT
Sunrise movement 🌅 and Sierra Club 🌲
Link Houston is fantastic 🚎🚏🚉
Cultural Anthropology
Jazz, blues, funk, soul and disco are my favorite music genres 🎶
(She/her)
Abdullah Alaoudh عبدالله العودة @aalodah.bsky.social عبدالله العودة
Senior Policy Advisor for the Gulf Issues at American Committee for Middle East Rights. Founding Member of the National Assembly Party
مستشار متقدم لسياسات الخليج في اللجنة الأمريكية لحقوق الشرق الأوسط وعضو مؤسس في حزب التجمع الوطني
Arwa @arwashobaki.bsky.social 1 in 8 billion; Managing Director @Mideastdc.org
Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social A useless humanist with a love for art, astronomy, history, literature, science, human rights and social justice. I hate oppression.
https://linktr.ee/raimokangasniemi
Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social Writer of sff/solarpunk/nomadpunk, hope addict, dad of twins, constantly fighting writer’s block
Humanity United @humanityunitedorg.bsky.social Humanity United is a foundation dedicated to cultivating the conditions for enduring peace and freedom.
Maged Mandour @magedmandour.bsky.social An Egyptian who writes about Egypt , among other things. Author Egypt under El-Sisi, now available.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/egypt-under-elsisi-9780755649136/
Zouhir Al Shimale @zouhiralshimale.bsky.social Journalist from Syria, Aleppo | international HRL MA @SOAS| At Valent's head of research responding to the increasingly chaotic information environment.
Abdelrahman Ayyash عبدالرحمن عياش @3yyash.bsky.social Journalist, Translator, and Researcher - Working on Islamic movements, Democracy, and Human Rights in the Middle East. 3yyash@proton[.]me
Riccardo Fabiani @ricfabiani.bsky.social Project Director, North Africa at the International Crisis Group.
PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social We defend free expression, aid writers in peril, and celebrate literature.
pencanada.ca
@shehab24.bsky.social @shehab24.bsky.social 
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Justice Upheld @justiceupheld.bsky.social Our mission as a global Human Rights charity is to give free and independent legal representation to those who cannot fight for themselves. ⚖️ 🌏
www.JusticeUpheld.org.uk
Brian Dooley @dooleydooley.bsky.social Honorary Professor, Queens University Belfast | Visiting Scholar, UCL | Senior Advisor, @humanrights1st | Winner 2025 University of Oslo Human Rights Award | Views mine | No manels | He/They | Wiki bio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_J._Dooley
AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social The Arab Gulf States Institute is an independent, nonprofit institution providing expert research and analysis of the Gulf Arab states.
https://agsi.org/
@bomigol.bsky.social @bomigol.bsky.social 
D-DAY @unretiredpunk.bsky.social Musician, sound human, good trouble