Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
@thompsonstrawn.bsky.social @thompsonstrawn.bsky.social 
Dhouha Djerbi @dhouha-djerbi.bsky.social PhD candidate in Polisci @ Geneva Graduate Institute | Interest in rural conflict, women's movements, Tunisian politics, research methods.
تونس & Genève
alexandra-blackman.bsky.social @alexandra-blackman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell, former NYU Abu Dhabi postdoc, Stanford PhD, CASA & Carnegie Endowment Fellow. Into Picasso, poetry, MENA politics, and Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
carnegieendowment.org
Rubén Campos @rubencampos.eurosky.social South Asia, Democracy & Nonviolent Movements Scholar.
@clubdemadrid.bsky.social Programs Director @rielcano.bsky.social Senior Fellow. Proud father-29 years in love with my wife. https://clubmadrid.org/who/secretariat/campos-ruben/
Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app Mostly a reskeeter. tradition, gender, land tenure, and resource politics in Southern Africa. I block would be followers without profiles.
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social Review of International Studies serves the needs of scholars in international relations and related fields such as politics, history, law, and sociology.
Belal Fadl @belalfadl.bsky.social كاتب على باب الله
Interpretive Methodologies and Methods APSA @interpretivemm.bsky.social Official account of the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods related group at the American Political Science Association.
https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod
SEPAD @sepad.bsky.social SEPAD is an international research network and collaborative project based at Lancaster University’s Richardson Institute, led by Professor Simon Mabon and Dr Edward Wastnidge. www.sepad.org.uk
Yasmina Abouzzohour @yabouzzohour.bsky.social Princeton University Research Scholar & Lecturer | Public opinion, civil–military & political behavior | MENA→comparative | PhD, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford
Nora Doaiji نورة الدعيجي @doaiji.bsky.social I am Saudi-American. I breathe Freedom. I bleed Oil. • Harvard PhD Candidate • ∞ زوجي @alamer.bsky.social • @Ana3rabeya on Twitter • NoraDoaiji.com • ☮️🍋 •
Rosalie Rubio, PhD @rosalierubio.bsky.social She/They | Associate Director of the Centennial Center at
@apsa.bsky.social | alt-alt-academic (?) | part-time comedian, full-time pagliacci| Benito’s personal assistant 🐾| Views are ENTIRELY my own and correct.
Rawya Rageh @rawya.bsky.social Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
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
Umar Karim @umerkarim.bsky.social Researcher. Interested in Gulf Studies/Saudi Arabia/South Asia
البدو من الأوقات
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
Kimberly Katz @kbkatz0710.bsky.social Historian, Middle East, Palestine, Jordan, Human Rights
Ahmed Al Omran @alomran.me Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
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
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Shannon Jenkins @slnoonanj.bsky.social Ass. Provost for Faculty Affairs and Undergraduate Education, Prof. of Political Science at UMass Dartmouth; State legislatures & state politics are my jam. "Serious demonic danger to society"
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Jeroen Gunning @jeroengunning.bsky.social People. Politics. Movements – Professor of Middle East Politics. King’s College London. RT ≠ necessarily endorsement
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Marcus Michaelsen @mmichae1sen.bsky.social Researching digital tech, human rights & authoritarian politics @citizenlab.ca. https://marcusmichaelsen.eu/ 
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
Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱
https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
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.
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/
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
Bassam Haddad @4bassam.bsky.social Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
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.
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 
Marya Hannun @maryahannun.bsky.social Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. 
Global Studies Quarterly @gsqjournal.bsky.social Global Studies Quarterly (GSQ) is the International Studies Association’s fully open access journal. Editors-in-Chief: Brent J. Steele & Jelena Subotic
https://academic.oup.com/isagsq?login=false
Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social CPS offers scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels. Edited by Ben Ansell, David Samuels, and Dawn Teele.
Alexandra Siegel @aasiegel.bsky.social Associate Prof. University of Colorado Boulder
MENA Politics & Computational Social Science
alexandra-siegel.com
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Analysis, insight and informed opinion on politics and public policy. https://politicalquarterly.org.uk
Catherine Warrick @catwarr.bsky.social Political science prof. Big fan of hound dogs, the rule of law, and the Oxford comma. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
David Roberts @drdavidroberts.bsky.social Security, politics, int affairs. Gulf, MENA & beyond.
Reader @KingsCollegeLon
Commissioning editor @CambridgeUP
Adjunct Faculty @PSIASciencesPo
Book: Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies https://cup.columbia.edu/book/security-politics-in-the-gulf
Sarah Bush @sarahbush.bsky.social professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania studying democracy promotion, elections, women's rights, NGOs; new book: https://amzn.to/3RIvGc0
Summer Forester @summerforester.bsky.social 
Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social Georgetown prof. Expect content on international politics, climate, soccer, and other random stuff. Views my own. Website: https://erikvoeten.georgetown.domains/
David Siddhartha Patel @davidpatel.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025) • omarcheta.com
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
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
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social An international journal, founded in 1968, presenting scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and processes.
Solafa Magdy @solafamagdy.bsky.social Mother | Exiled Journalist | @Paris Citizenship 2020 | Courage in Journalism Winner 2020 @IWMF | Ex. Fellow @TimepDC |
Determined to share my Cellmates' Stories ✌🏼
نص بيضحك والتاني زعلان .. انا شيخ فلتان 🕊️
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Matt Buehler @mattbuehler.bsky.social Middle East Studies Chair & Associate Professor at University of Tennessee; Editor, Mediterranean Politics; Co-editor, Edinburgh Studies on the Maghreb.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Patrick Zaki @patrickzaki.bsky.social Human Rights Defender |
Minority Rights Researcher |
MA Gender Studies at unibo |
Phd scholar in scuola normale superiore|
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Simon Mabon @profmabon.bsky.social Professor of International Politics, author, podcaster. Lancaster University. SEPAD.
Schism (Yale University Press)
The Struggle for Supremacy (Cambridge University Press)
Houses built on sand (Manchester University Press)
Saudi & Iran (IB Tauris)
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya
omnia khalil أمنية خليل @omniakhalil.bsky.social Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
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
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)
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
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 |
لينا الهذلول Lina Alhathloul @linaalhathloul.bsky.social 
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com
https://www.newarab.com/- M @madamasr.bsky.social @madamasr.bsky.social
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.- R @rimajed.bsky.social @rimajed.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
Avital Livny @avitallivny.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Pol Science @ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethnicity & religion; Turkey & Middle East; measurement
More here: www.alivny.com
Nancy Okail @nancyokail.bsky.social President & CEO @CIPolicy. Ex-convict, Scholar, Tango dancer. Advocate: Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security. @Stanford, @SussexUni. Fmr ED @TimepDC
Kevan Harris @kevanharris.bsky.social Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists / UCLA Iranian Diaspora Dashboard https://iraniandiaspora.github.io/
The Big Pharaoh @thebigpharaoh.bsky.social 
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! 
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Moritz Schmoll @moritzschmoll.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science at
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Rabat. 
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/
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
Dina Osama Lot-fy @dinaosama.bsky.social Assistant Professor|PhD in Political Science| Cairo University
✍️Autocratic transitions| Religion and Politics|Terrorism
My Publications: https://sites.google.com/feps.edu.eg/dinaosamalotfy/publications?authuser=0
📍Cairo, Egypt
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.
Sultan Alamer @alamer.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Center of Middle Eastern Studies • Nation-Building • Technology • Arabian Peninsula • @doaiji.bsky.social • بريدة
Andrew M Leber @andrewleber.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U
MENA politics, some photography, some translation
New Orleans, LA ⚜️
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
Nick Lotito @lotito.bsky.social Political scientist @ Princeton SPIA. Middle East, international security, civil-military relations.
Samer Anabtawi (he/him) @anabtawi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Politics & International Relations Programme Co-Director
@UCL. Palestinian. Study LGBTQ politics, social movements, Palestinian politics, authoritarianism, MENA. Jenin - Washington - London