Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
@janicejourno.bsky.social @janicejourno.bsky.social 
QUOI Media 🇨🇦 @quoimedia.bsky.social Communications firm working with experts including Nobel Laureates, academics and politicians to publish evidence-based commentaries on critical policy issues. www.quoimedia.com
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
trace press @tracepress.bsky.social Literature from the global south & diasporas.
tracepress.org
Tkaronto/ elsewhere
IG: @tracepress00
x: @tracepress
#bksky #smallpress #poetry #fiction #cnf #translation
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Oxfam-Québec @oxfam-quebec.bsky.social Nous luttons contre les inégalités partout dans le monde pour mettre fin à la pauvreté et à l'injustice. Rejoignez le mouvement pour un #aveniràégalité 🙌
David McKie @davidmckie.bsky.social David McKie is Canada National Observer's deputy managing editor, data-journalism trainer, and teaches at Carleton U., the University of King's College and TMU
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Eddie Monkman @eddiemonkman.bsky.social Yorkshire-based journalist. York Press, The Line of Best Fit and News Associates.
Prarthana Pathak (she/her) @prarthanapathak.bsky.social Peel Reporter at The Local ✍🏽
prarthanapathak.ca
Ahmed Zidan @zidan.bsky.social Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism
Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine.
Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us.
@zidanism on that other site.
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
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social 🎬 Melbourne’s Documentary
🌏 Documentary Month | July 2027
🎞️ Call for entries now open
🎥 Celebrating the best in documentary storytelling
👇
www.mdff.org.au
Christina Frangou @cfrangou.bsky.social Journalist, writer, teacher. Likes bikes and books. www.christinafrangou.com
Michael Luongo @michaelluongo.bsky.social TEDx Speaker, Novelist, Journalist, Editor, Photographer, Professor/Instructor, Author 16 books: education, travel, culture, human rights & more. PhD student researching tourism & conflict. NYC & Indiana. www.michaelluongo.com
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Noor Azrieh @noorazrieh.bsky.social Host/producer @canadaland.com covering Canadian politics. noor@canadaland.com
Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social Devoted too many years of my life to platforms that were ultimately refashioned into reactionary organs. Now I'm here.
Massey College @masseycollege.bsky.social Massey College. Where people and ideas intersect. Events and Links: https://linktr.ee/masseycollege
Ahmed Attallah @ahmedattalla.bsky.social Executive Director of the Egyptian Front for Human Rights & MA student in EU Studies at UCLouvain
shanzae 🧿🍉 @fatalmusings.bsky.social freelance journalist , writer, feminist.
substack.com/fatalmusings
https://linktr.ee/shanzaee
Jay Wu Lee🇮🇪/🏴 @jaywulee.bsky.social Actor.Writer.Promoter.
PEN INTERNATIONAL
(Young Peoples Representative for Wales)
Haq Story School @haqstoryschool.bsky.social Storytelling school and studio helping nonfiction writers, journalists, podcasters and filmmakers build their craft and careers.
Today in Toronto @todayintoronto.bsky.social We share and RT all things happening today in Toronto! Tag us for RTs! #TodayinToronto
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
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 & writer: MENA, Human Rights, Policy.
Magdi.Amr@proton.me
with @HRW.org
Liz Lumsden @lizlums.bsky.social Communications professional based in Ottawa.
PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social We defend free expression, aid writers in peril, and celebrate literature.
pencanada.ca
Michael Hollett @northbymichael.bsky.social Editor/publisher NEXT Magazine. President/CEO NXNE. Editor-in-Chief SPIN Canada. Founder of NXNE and NEXT Magazine, co-founder NOW Magazine nextmag.ca. NXNE 2027 June 16-20
Jennifer Hollett @jenniferhollett.bsky.social All about media, tech, & politics
Executive Director, @thewalrus.ca
Former Twitter employee staring into a Bluesky.
www.jenniferhollett.com
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Kawther Alkholy @kawtheralkholy.bsky.social 📚 Ph.D. Candidate in Social Innovation
Intersectionality, Radical Imagination & Gendered Innovations: Rethinking systems to center marginalized voices.
https://www.kawtheralkholy.net
Unifor @unifor.org Canada’s largest union in the private sector. Follow National President @lanapayne.bsky.social
Resist @resist.wiki 🔐 Resist the dystopian future, surveillance, and oppression systems. Tech for liberation, built on solidarity. ✊🌱
Sofian Philip Naceur @sofiannaceur.bsky.social Journalist, currently Tunis/Rome, working on 🇪🇬🇩🇿🇹🇳🇵🇸 border regimes, migration, arms trade
Contact: mail(a)sofiannaceur.de
Foundational Thoughts @druidorbital.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🌈🛰️✈️🚆⚓️🛳️⛴️
Professor Chuixiang (Tree) Yi at City University of New York @cyi12.bsky.social Earth resilience, tipping behavior, nonlinear thinking, stability analysis, climate change, photosynthesis, soil respiration, tree mortality, Fulbright Scholar
Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
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! 
Stephanie MacLellan @smaclellan.bsky.social Writer + editor + policy wonk based in Toronto. Prone to nerding out over online disinformation, infosec, Slovakia and the French football team.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they’d send a limousine anyway.
she/her
Khalifa @khalifaetal.bsky.social 
Ian Van Haren @ianvh.bsky.social PhD Candidate - McGill U Sociology
Curious about migration, social policy, families, religion, higher education, refugee rights, demography & democracy. I share content that I find interesting.
Martin Schwarz @schwarz-martin.bsky.social #Theologian, #Protestant #Pastor, #Diakonia professional, #Facilitator, #ArtOfHosting (er/ihm; he/him)
It all starts with conversations that matter
@schwarz_martin@mastodon.social
Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social Deputy Opinion Editor, @theglobeandmail.com. Former Globe and Mail/National Post Books Editor.
Author of Live to See the Day, a national bestseller. https://linktr.ee/mark.medley
Sahar Mechmech @saharmechmech.bsky.social MENA Tax Justice, Feminist Economics, and Climate Justice | Inclusive Economies manager at @timep.bsky.social
Ahmed Mohsen @ahmedmohsen.bsky.social Medical Doctor | Public Policy Expert | Educator and Social Entrepreneur Focused on Community Empowerment and Driving Positive Change.
Chris El-kholy 🧿 @chriselkholy.bsky.social journalist by training/ media critic by necessity⠀
online editor @newlinesmag.bsky.social
toronto by way of cairo
[@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
Samer Mokhtar @samermokhtar.bsky.social Syrian writer and journalist.
Ali Bakry @alibakry.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Journalist | TV Producer | Human rights defender |
Fact-checker OpenSource journalism
| OSINT | Member of @nvj
Ahmed @aabollo.bsky.social Ph.D. in progress | Egyptian | Interested in Virtue Ethics, Environmental Justice, Moral Psychology, Stoicism, & Sufism | Cooking and Classical Arabic music keep me grounded.
Mohamed Kamal @m0kama1.bsky.social Master's degree in cybercrime investigations | Digital Forensics Investigator | OSINT | Digital Rights Activist | Digital Journalist | مصر أم الدنيا
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
Ahmed Gamal Ziada @ziada.bsky.social Journalist and Editor in Chief of Zawia3.com
interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
at Freie Universität Berlin • conflict & violence • justice & accountability • research ethics & safety
Carolina Pedrazzi @pedrazzics.bsky.social Freelance Journalist covering the Levant. Previously Beirut and Ramallah. Currently at Columbia Journalism School.
Pacinthe @pacinthe.bsky.social Journalist | www.pacinthe.com
Ibrahim Ezz El-Din @ezz-eldin.bsky.social Urban researcher, founder of Diwan Al-Omran for Urban Studies, and a student at Sorbonne University.
Souheila Yildiz @souheilay.bsky.social 
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
ranwa @ranwa.bsky.social Arab African woman, mother. Founder of Arab Digital Expression Foundation. Engaged in progressive educational methodologies in art, technology, media for transformative justice and community mobilisation and engagement 
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social TIMEP is dedicated to centering localized perspectives in the policy discourse on the Middle East and North Africa. (Twitter: @TIMEPDC)
Sign up for updates: http://timep.org/newsletter
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
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
Halem Henish @halemhenish.bsky.social 
Gizem Zencirci @gizemzencirci.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College. Works on Islam, capitalism, and charity. 
Ayoub Menzli @ayoub-menzli.bsky.social Political Economist
PhD Scholar - Roma Tre
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
Kylie Sertic @kyliesertic.bsky.social Studying Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Carter School at GMU. Formerly in journalism. Opinions my own. She/her
Carolyn Barnett @cbarns.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ University of Arizona SGPP. MENA politics, gender, public opinion, social policy, pol econ of development.
Micha Tobia @michatobia.bsky.social Editorial Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social | Heart and mind in Beirut
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 
Alice Franchini @alicefranchini.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore | Co-founder & advocacy officer at EgyptWide | working on activism and civil society in the Mediterranean region, BHR (arms trade, energy).
Activist. Views mine.
lei / ləi
Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org Democracy, Technology, and Other Stuff. activationlayer.org
PhD candidate @ the University of Texas.
Check out disinfo-policy.org
I am friends with a pug.
Belal Fadl @belalfadl.bsky.social كاتب على باب الله
Mostafa Fouad @mostfouad.bsky.social Co-founder & Executive Director @humena.bsky.social,
Diaspora Mobilizer,
Activist in Exile,
Legal and Policy Analyst,
Human Rights Researcher.
- (MENA-Focused)
📍Brussels
Ahmed Abdelnaby @abnozy.bsky.social Lawyer & Co-founder at RCRL
Mohammad El Taher @eltaher.xyz Co-founder @masaar.net .
Researcher and Technologist.
Blogger, Publisher of the CyberSurf newsletter & podcast host.
Believer in dignity for all.
https://eltaher.xyz
عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt