Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
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
John Dieck @johnjd.bsky.social History PhD Candidate--UMN, Twin Cities
COSP Diversity Predoctoral Fellow
Modern Maghrib; Imperialism; Commodities; Internationalism
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Bassem Mroue @bmroue.bsky.social Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press since 1992.
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within CDC.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
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.
Brian Rosa @brianrosa.bsky.social Geographer at Universitat de Barcelona. Papá, fotógrafo, santsenc dels EUA. http://brianrosa.net
Nick Lotito @lotito.bsky.social Political scientist @ Princeton SPIA. Middle East, international security, civil-military relations.
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Kaoutar Ghilani @kaoutarghi.bsky.social Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Language politics | Nation-building | Public sphere | Knowledge production
Maghreb | Middle East
PhD @ox.ac.uk | Former EUME Fellow
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
Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social A Syrian investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with 20+ years’ experience, founder of the Prisons Museum. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
https://amermatar.com
https://prisons.museum
https://linktr.ee/amer.mattr
Benjamin Geer @benjamingeer.name Software developer and ex-academic (sociology, conceptual history, Arabic culture, etc.), sometimes publishes classical sheet music, lives in Paris, en/fr/ar/de/it, blog https://benjamingeer.name/, publications https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2449-8558
Abdo Jabassini @syrianzo.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow - Central European University | Peace and conflict studies | Syria and the Middle East
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
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
Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
Ali Hashem علي هاشم @alihashem.bsky.social 🇱🇧|🇸🇱 @AJEnglish | Founder @darhashembooks & @aljadahmedia | bylines @AlMonitor @AmwajMedia @foreignpolicy| MA Politics & IR (#Iran) @RoyalHolloway
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
Mustapha Hamoui @beirutspring.com 🇱🇧 I've been watching and writing about Lebanon for more than 20 years. I can sometimes get carried away.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social Freelance journalist & photojournalist covering Syria, the Middle East, and breaking global news.
Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
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
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Shahriman Lockman @slockman.bsky.social Director (Special Projects), Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia • Malaysian foreign relations, Asian security, South China Sea • Views expressed are my own.
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
Scott Long @scottlong1980.bsky.social He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
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
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).
@rmslim.bsky.social @rmslim.bsky.social Lebanese-American; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @SAISHopkins FPI @FPI_SAIS
Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social VP for Research @CIPolicy. Former @CenturyIntl.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Dr HA Hellyer @drhahellyer.bsky.social ‣ Senior Associate Fellow - Geopolitics, Security @ Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
‣ Fmr: Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Harvard Kennedy School
‣ Specialise in MENA ◘ Europe ◘ SE-Asia
POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
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
Meray Maddah @meraymaddah.bsky.social PoliSci PhD Candidate @ University of Konstanz
autocracies | international parliamentary assemblies/IOs | representation | hybrid regimes
meraymaddah.github.io
Own views
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 🇪🇺.
Andrea Novellis @andreanovellis.bsky.social Postdoc @ University L'Orientale of Naples
Now focus on EWS and international organizations
Also: Rebel governance, power-sharing and ethnonationalism
Focus on Sri Lanka, Kurdish issue, Syria, Turkey
Vanessa Newby @vfnewby.bsky.social Asst Prof | Leiden University | Author of ‘Peacekeeping in South Lebanon’ | International Relations | UN | Gender | WPS | Middle East | Peacekeeping | WIIS Netherlands | CCL | Imm Joudeh | She/Her | Website: vfnewby.com
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com- K Kelly Stedem @kstedem.bsky.social Assistant Professor Political Science at Bucknell University. IR, MENA region
- 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.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Manar Hassan | منار حسن @manarisms.bsky.social International aid and development. Conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Posts on Middle East, Africa, conflict, restorative justice, social movements, political transitions, and human rights. Views are my own.
Carolyn Barnett @cbarns.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ University of Arizona SGPP. MENA politics, gender, public opinion, social policy, pol econ of development.
Andrew M Leber @andrewleber.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U
MENA politics, some photography, some translation
New Orleans, LA ⚜️
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Johannes Schmitthenner @richtennach.bsky.social Thinking about Islam, Marxism, Philosophy, Economy, few other things 
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
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
Zahr K. Said @zahrsaid.bsky.social Arab-American Law Professor at Santa Clara University / writes about copyright, the jury, remedies & torts / frets about higher education / loves passion fruit and giant avocados / manages EDS/POTS/Long Covid 🦓🦓🦓
Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Development/Labor/Education/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Camel's Nose @thecamelsnose.bsky.social Professorial Lecturer in Political Science and Policy Analyst in Washington, DC. Comparative/IR. Middle East, Arab Gulf States, Iran, Israel. Gender, Tribes, Ethnic Politics.
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Morgan E O’Neill @morganeoneill.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Physics, University of Toronto. Climate scientist. Settler. Thoughts my own.
Stop the genocide! Free Palestine!
JW Roberts @jwroberts.bsky.social Professor/Chair Politics & IR, Roger Williams University. Spec. in MENA, social movements, political communication, ethnic conflict, games/simulations, & pedagogy. Views my own/RPs ≠ endorsement. He/Him/His
Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social Comms & campaigns @homeless_law. Jewish justice seeker. Howard MSW, guitarist, veggie lover. Tweets, mine. Alum:
@miriamskitchen @weareavodah @ajws. He/him
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Arne Rieber @arnerieber.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer @UniBonn Geography / interested in economic geography, political economy, political ecology, industrial policy, infrastructure and hydropolitics
Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social I wrote THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA and REBELS ON THE AIR, and now I'm writing THE ANARCHIST AND THE REPUBLICAN. Also at https://letterboxd.com/notjessewalker.
Samuel Cohn @samuelcohn.bsky.social Founder and First President of the American Sociological Association Section on Development.
State & Development, Gender & Development, Historical Sociology, Macrosociology, Gender Discrimination
Author of All Societies Die: (Cornell University Press)
Philipp Rotmann @rotmann.net Peace & security, conflict, stabilization, foresight & war/policy gaming | Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Oliver Mizzi @ollymizzi99.bsky.social Journalist at The New Arab covering the MENA. Sussex and St Andrews alum. Finally got round to substack writing here: https://substack.com/@ollymizzi99 
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate for the Center of the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Former USIP Peace Scholar.
Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida.
www.salahbenhammou.com
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Omar Abolnaga @omarabolnaga.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History & Theory of Architecture & Urbanism at the Bartlett School of Architecture | Investigating the discursive construction of the ʿashwaʾi space in Cairo | Host of Cairo Cast Podcast | He/him www.omarabolnaga.com
Patrick S. Noonan @patricknoonan.bsky.social management prof emeritus, decision scientist, armchair astronaut, writer, traveler, lead guitarist (Outer Park & Laurasia)
Music: https://linktr.ee/patricksnoonan
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
Liv Uni Politics @livunipol.bsky.social Expert opinion, news and student stories from the Department of Politics at University of Liverpool.
8-11 Abercromby Square
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/
https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/NeEuwAr
Erin Kane @erinkane.bsky.social Never for money, always for love. Comic book lover and lesbian pop-culture aficionado. She/her.
Keenan Wilder @keenanw.bsky.social 
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Ryan R @ryanrochnroll.bsky.social Twitter escapee. Pop culture, art, history, politics, foolishness. If it’s about dogs or Godzilla, tell me more.
Guy Burton @guyburton.net Recovering academic. Taught politics. Written some books. Occasional commentator. Now making podcasts. Looking for opportunities in Brussels.
www.guyburton.net
Michael Walsh @greatermiddleeast.bsky.social Sr. National Security and Foreign Policy Columnist / Lead Researcher on US national strategic plans / Occasional Lecturer at Foreign Service Institute / Former Sr Comm Mgr at Microsoft/ Affiliate at Georgetown SFS / Views own.
Ryan Bohl @ryanbohl.bsky.social Girl dad. Dog friend. Chicken wrangler. Some Middle Eastern geopolitics. Upper Darby School Board member. Views (especially politics) my own; follow me on X/Linkedin for professional MENA analysis.