Shamiran Mako @smako.bsky.social Associate professor, comparative politics and IR @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
www.shamiranmako.com
Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com Executive Director at @kawaakibi.org Anti-authoritarianism, new paradigms and institution-building.
Author of' The Middle East Crisis Factory': menacrisisfactory.com
KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social Senior Legal Analyst for the Constitution Project at @pogowatchdog. Trying to annoy CBP for rights violations as badly as I used to annoy the CIA. Personal account; views are my own, etc.
Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: http://bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her
Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Co-director, Religion and State Project
Territorial Conflict, Politics & Religion, Extremist Social Movements
New Book: Religious Minorities at Risk, Oxford, w Matthias Basedau & Jonathan Fox
Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social Professor @au-spa.bsky.social
Pol Violence | Pol Psychology
New Book: “NO OPTION BUT SABOTAGE”
Substack: https://zeitzoff.substack.com
1st Book: "Nasty Politics"
Website: www.zeitzoff.com
Poya Pakzad @ppkzd.bsky.social Co-founding editor of Eftertryk Magazine. Devotee of fine cigars. Father of two extraordinary daughters. Palestine on my mind. Off the clock thoughts (=LinkedIn for professional networking) 
Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
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
Christiana Parreira @cmparreira.bsky.social political scientist • assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) • PhD Stanford • governance and elections in the Middle East
📍 geneva • beirut 🔗 christianaparreira.com
Jerome Drevon @jeromed.bsky.social Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Last book on HTS's rise to power in Syria, Transformed by the People
Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
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
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
Lama Mourad @lmourad.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CU_NPSIA
| migration, local governance, Middle East politics, Lebanon, research ethics | #FirstGen | she/her | Personal account & opinions
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
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 
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
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Andrew M Leber @andrewleber.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U
MENA politics, some photography, some translation
New Orleans, LA ⚜️
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya
sofia fenner @seabird.bsky.social
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
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.
Jonathan Wyrtzen @jonathanwyrtzen.bsky.social Studying empire, colonialism, decolonization, nation, collective identity, state formation, non-state political orders, Middle East / North Africa; Global Texas; sociologist and historian. Latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War
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
Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social academic & author writing about labour & development in global political economy
🇨🇦🇴🇲🇳🇱
https://www.crystalennis.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&
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.
Sibel Oktay @sibeloktay.bsky.social Faculty Fellow at American University SIS.
Nonres. Sr. Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Award-winning author of Governing Abroad (University of Michigan Press, 2022)
www.sibeloktay.net
Avital Livny @avitallivny.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Pol Science @ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethnicity & religion; Turkey & Middle East; measurement
More here: www.alivny.com
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
James McDougall @jamesrmcd.bsky.social Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
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
David Siddhartha Patel @davidpatel.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Adam Baron @adammbaron.bsky.social Former niche social media personality. Baltimorean. Calabrese. Aspiring gadfly.
Future Security Program Fellow, @newamerica.org; Advisor on Yemen and the Gulf, @hdcentre.org; obituary writer, British-Yemeni Society Journal.
Ora Szekely @oraszekely.bsky.social Political science professor | political violence and civil war in the Middle East | very pro-Rhode Island. 
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/
Serhat Tutkal @serhattutkal.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (political violence, dehumanization, racism, digital platforms) - Secihti, Mexico
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ShpYfisAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Main social media account: https://fediscience.org/@SerhatTutkal
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
Tuğba Bozçağa (Tuba/طُوبَى) @tubabozcaga.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at @KingsCollegeLon
Previously @Harvard @MIT @Bogazici_Econ | political economy of development | tugbabozcaga.com/research | #FirstGen
Hannah M. Ridge @hmridge.bsky.social Assist. Prof. @ Chapman Uni. Postdoc @ UChicago. PhD @ Duke Polisci.
Public opinion, democracy, religion, & MENA politics
http://hannahmridge.com
"Defining Democracy" https://tinyurl.com/mry5ahsc
"Contours of Israeli Politics" https://tinyurl.com/2ererfhm
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
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.
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
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
Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk Working on tech
He/Him
London, UK
Left non-statist
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
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