Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social Weather and climate scientist focused on extreme events like floods, droughts, & wildfires on a warming planet. www.weatherwest.com
Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social Professor @UCLA @UCLAEEB
Studying ecological effects of global change (range shifts, #phenology, and #wildfire) on #birds and occasionally other organisms. Proudly LGBTQ (he/him)
Tweets entirely my own
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
SyriaTV | تلفزيون سوريا @syriatv.bsky.social www.syria.tv - https://www.youtube.com/live/lekF0l28m5U
Syria TV is a Turkey-based broadcasting TV channel with the guiding slogan "Freedom Forever." It addresses Syrian audience members wherever they are.
Syria TV It’s a kind of platform for all Syrian 
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 
Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net ❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And
(@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) 📸 Member in ( IFJ ) ( SJA )
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.
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
Pierre Fermigier @scriptio.bsky.social Politics, History, MENA & International Relations | Ex HRVP Cabinet, EEAS, SGDSN, Quai d'Orsay & Assemblée nationale | RT≠endorsement
Hilde Haraldstad @hildeharaldstad.bsky.social 
SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social Inspiring the next generation to develop ideas for a fairer world. Follow us for tweets about SOAS life, news and events. #WeAreSOAS
Sahibzada @sahibzada333.bsky.social 
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
UNDP @undp.org 
Norwegian Armed Forces | Forsvaret @forsvaret.bsky.social Offisiell konto for det norske forsvaret. Official account for the Norwegian Armed Forces
www.forsvaret.no
@idunnmy.bsky.social @idunnmy.bsky.social 
Marte Lid @martelid.bsky.social Head of AI Initiative @Noradno. Engaging people in change, focusing on artificial intelligence and sustainable development. Change manager, communicator, ex-cowgirl and fan of salty liquorice & diving in the ocean (not simultanously).
Espen Aas @nrkesp1.bsky.social Prog. leder for #dax18, tidligere Debatten og ex-korrespondent i London. Skrevet guide til samtlige Bob Dylans studioalbum, slippes i midten av september 2026.
Hero Fjelltoft Ezat @hero-fe.bsky.social Samfunnsøkonom i Norad. Strikker🧶Lurer på mye om hvordan det hele henger sammen 🌍 (meninger er egne)
Norad @norad.no The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation/ Norad er en statlig kunnskapsetat som jobber for en grønnere framtid i en bærekraftig verden uten fattigdom🌍 norad.no
Nina Bull Jørgensen @ninabull.bsky.social Experienced journalist and communications expert, engaged in social issues and international affairs. Creative, easy going, curious - always ready for new adventures
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
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
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
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 
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
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
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
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
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: https://law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
Lamis Abdelaaty @labdelaaty.bsky.social Assoc Prof of PoliSci • IR, Refugees • labdelaa.expressions.syr.edu • she/her • Views own, etc.
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social associate professor of political science @ city college of new york | your old millennial friend | local politics | palestine | states, nationalism, conflict | maps | music | chocolate | nut butters | canines and other creatures | will strive to listen
Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social Political scientist at Johns Hopkins. SWANA, disasters, political violence, ethics, humanitarian crises, qual methods, & Star Wars. Wrote a book a/b Palestinian org evolution & social change in wartime Lebanon: http://bit.ly/3VEw64B. EMT. Opinions my own.
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
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.
Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // 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
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
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social I explore fractured modernities across the Arab world and the Mediterranean. Political sociologist, public scholar and UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. 📍 Casablanca 🌐 www.amroali.com
Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Researching political violence & the inner workings of dictatorships
https://felixhaass.de/
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/
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social Lecturer at SOAS. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
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
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&
POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
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
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
Hager Ali @hagerali.bsky.social Researcher & PhD at GIGA Hamburg, Policy Advisor, Journalist. Civil-Military Relations, Authoritarianism, MENA, Sudan. Editor of #AutocraciesWithAdjectives at ECPR's Political Science Blog "The Loop". Alumna at CEU and Goethe Uni. Admin of Comparativesky
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.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Jan Vömel @janvoemel.bsky.social Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa.
danieltavana.com
Tiina Hyyppä @hyyppati.bsky.social Doctoral researcher Univ Helsinki, civil wars, civilian agency, rebel governance, political violence, Syria. Member of board of NSMES and editorial board of Babylon. 
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.
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...
Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social 
Sharan Grewal @sharangrewal.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings
Me: https://sharangrewal.com/
My book: https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Democracy-Military-Legacies-Spring/dp/0198873514/
Tareq @teraqerat.bsky.social Research on Protests & Authoritarianism in Asia | Center for Conflict Studies Marburg | Coordinator BMBF project @postcolh.bsky.social | Principal Investigator DFG project @afpro.bsky.social
More:
tasyd.com
teraqerat.substack.com
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
Bassam Haddad @4bassam.bsky.social Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde.... coming in 2027
Postdoc at Free University Berlin
Photo from 1999
https://www.calebward.xyz/
Life is impermanent and so are reposts.- M Mairav Zonszein @mairavz.bsky.social Journalist
Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social Head of Research Area "Societal Peace and Internal Security" at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg @ifshhamburg.bsky.social 
Micha Tobia @michatobia.bsky.social Editorial Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social | Heart and mind in Beirut
Patrick Zaki @patrickzaki.bsky.social Human Rights Defender |
Minority Rights Researcher |
MA Gender Studies at unibo |
Phd scholar in scuola normale superiore|
🇪🇬
Rola El-Husseini @rola-husseini.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
ME politics- gender- conflict
She/her
Mariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social Researching transnational conflicts, violence, struggles for justice, change, knowledge politics at INTERACT | FU Berlin | Book: https://tinyurl.com/yckxdh62 | she/her
Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics
Tim Glawion @timglawion.bsky.social Researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg & MIASA, Accra
Subjective security, conflict, qual comparison / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti
Book: Security Arena in Africa
https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
Regine Schwab @reginesonja.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Studying civil wars, non-state armed groups and wartime institutions. Interested in Middle Eastern Politics and Societies.
https://www.regineschwab.org/
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.
Nermin Allam @nerminallam.bsky.social Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
Hana Attia @hanaattia.bsky.social Junior Professor of Security Policy and Peace at Leuphana University & Research Fellow at GIGA. Interested in how states and IOs respond to global security challenges. Focus on the use of economic coercion & sanctions
Allison Hartnett @ashartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor at USC POIR. Authoritarianism past and present, redistribution & inequality, land, elites. Mostly MENA. www.allisonhartnett.io
Mohamed Mandour @mandour.bsky.social Masters of Human Rights @Humphery School, University of Minnesota. MENA Researcher @Committee to Protect Journalists. #Press_Freedom, #Transnational_Repression, and #Tech_policy. Words are mine! 
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
Hannes Baumann @hannesbaumann.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
Bassel Salloukh @bassel26.bsky.social Associate Dean SOSH, Professor & Chair, Politics & IR Program, DI, Editor-in-Chief MELG, & untutorable critic of all things Lebanese: Ubi libertas, ibi patria
Dr. Ilyas Saliba @isaliba.bsky.social Research, Advice & Teaching on:
HumanRights | Authoritarianism | Fieldwork | AcademicFreedom | CivicSpace | WANA
👨🏾💻: UniErfurt | GPPi | CARPO | HertieSchool
✊🏾: KriSol | WissDem | BRISMES | DAVO | SAR
Web: www.ilyassaliba.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-5769-7601
Kevin Koehler @kkoehler.bsky.social Associate Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa; PI MENA-PERC project; research on political elites in MENA, particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey.
www.kevinkoehler.org
Josh Stacher @stacher.bsky.social Professor of International Studies, Yogi (not in that order). 
Hamidreza Azizi @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social Senior Iran Analyst at the International Crisis Group
http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
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 🇪🇺.
Dr Alexei Abrahams @smokegatherer.bsky.social Head of Digital Trace at Canada's Media Ecosystem Observatory meo.ca
Author at No Starch Press nostarch.com/social-media-observatory
القصة هي الحياة التي ما كانت و الحياة هي القصة التي ما رويت
Clara Süß @clarasuess.bsky.social PolSci PostDoc @ GIGA Hamburg, Outreach & Transfer Manager of MECAM • Tunisia & Maghreb, social movements, pol. violence • Alumna Goethe Uni Frankfurt and PRIF
📍Berlin
Meray Maddah @meraymaddah.bsky.social PoliSci PhD Candidate @ University of Konstanz
autocracies | international parliamentary assemblies/IOs | representation | hybrid regimes
meraymaddah.github.io
Own views
Karim Émile Bitar @karimbitar.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.
Myriam Ahmed @myriahmed.bsky.social PhD candidate & research fellow at INTERACT, FU Berlin • resistance, protest movements and (urban) spaces • SGMOIK board member • formerly swisspeace & CMI