Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social Systems dynamics, military strategy, measuring conflict prevention, human security.
Leave the world a fairer place.
- Fellow @RSA
- Assoc Snr Researcher @CCIP
Alumni: @NATO @RMI @DCAF @RCDS
Reservist.
Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social Dad, philosopher, chronically ill person.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/people/sam-clark
Views my own.
Aleksandra Piletić @apiletic.bsky.social Critical political economy / neoliberalism / comparative capitalisms / cities
John Crowther @john-crowther7bsky.bsky.social Respect nature and biodiversity. In the fight to grow a fairer, greener, sustainable future. #BuildBackFairer #BuildBackGreener #MakeBritainWetAgain
Elana DeLozier @elanagulf.bsky.social Executive Director, The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs || Adjunct Faculty, UVA || #Yemen #Gulf #Nuke
Dave Clark @daveclarkreports.eurosky.social News reporter, AFP
Immigrant: France
Emigrant: UK
Migrant: Kosovo, Nigeria, Iraq, US, Belgium
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social - 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
AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social The Arab Gulf States Institute is an independent, nonprofit institution providing expert research and analysis of the Gulf Arab states.
https://agsi.org/
Giorgio Cafiero @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social CEO of DC-based Gulf State Analytics • Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University • Adjunct Fellow at American Security Project • SME Gulf States • Public Trust Contractor 
Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se Cultural critic and reluctant public intellectual. Hyperfixations include meme culture, anti-fascism, and esoteric internet lore.
Ceci n’est pas du content → doomscroll.se
Mostly 🇸🇪, occasionally unhinged.
Marina Calculli 🇵🇸 @maricalc.bsky.social “No one can be free until everyone is free”
Martin Zubko @martinzubko.bsky.social Scholar (seeking a PhD supervisor) | Energy Geopolitics • Critical Infrastructure & Cyberspace • Global Governance • Small States Foreign Policy • IR Theory
(Reposts≠Endorsement)
https://martinzubko.com/
Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social Supporting teaching, learning and research at Lancaster University
@giovanniclima2.bsky.social @giovanniclima2.bsky.social 
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Sally Oliphant @sallytalksbooks.bsky.social Book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books.
CR: Honey
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Zeineb Alsabeehg @alsaz.bsky.social PhD, University of Edinburgh; Visiting Research Fellow, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School; Visiting PhD Researcher, European University Institute; MA, University of Oslo.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Jay Heisler @jayheisler.bsky.social Hey! I'm published in CNBC, Washington Examiner, Voice of America, US Naval Institute Proceedings and as a music journalist in Canadian newspapers. Here to check out the scene! Feel free to add me to LinkedIn or Facebook.
Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salmamousa.bsky.social Political science prof at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
Jacopo Scita @jacoposcita.bsky.social Analisi e scenari geopolitici @GruppoCDP | PhD @Durham_SGIA via al-Sabah programme | ex @BourseBazaar | Qui solo opinioni personali | @inter
Maria Marsh @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social Middle Eastern & African studies, Publisher, Cambridge University Press. All views are mine.
Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine and Human Shields
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social Founded in 1966, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. https://linktr.ee/mesa_1966
Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social Reader in Law, SOAS; Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Yearbook of International Law; author, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).
Mark LeVine @culturejamming.bsky.social Prof, UC Irvine, musician, writer, human rights & cultural heritage activist. Co-founder, Kakuma Sound. Hates fascists & not time for liberals. Will travel anywhere for a good groove, especially if it's along the Funk Belt ... kakuma-sound.org
Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social Guardian columnist, journalist, author, professor. www.moustafabayoumi.com
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Into history of international law, courts and dogs. Lives in and loves Den Haag <3
Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Public International Law @UoN | formerly @NUS | member @TGC | editorial board @AsianJIL | International Law, International Criminal Law, Law of Armed Conflict, History of International Law
ORCID: 0000-0001-5109-5933
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
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Grace Sharp @gracesharpp.bsky.social Features Editor @DisruptionBanking & @MRKT3.0. Writing about AI, power, and where money actually flows in tech.
Always keen to meet more founders, professionals, and interesting people building in AI and tech.
Danielle Summer @daniellesummer.bsky.social Freelance Foreign Correspondent with a focus on women’s rights and foreign affairs.
Leon Kouider @leonkouider.bsky.social Journalist at Maghrebi.org specialising in Sudan and Egypt.
Kate Bunn @katebunn.bsky.social Reporter for online newspaper, Maghrebi.org, focusing on news from the Sahel region.
Gabriel Garroum Pla @gabrielgarroum.bsky.social Postdoc ir IR - Research Group in International Public Law & International Relations @upf.edu
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Bart Thijssen @bartthijssen.bsky.social Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social Passionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
Francisco Corral @panchocorral.bsky.social Political Science @ the University of Maine, Mexicano, passionate about art, culture, and social science, Luis Miguel fan
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Matt Walker @brewinggooner.bsky.social 
Russell Holden @russinthezone.bsky.social Author. Researcher, Lecturer, Mentor and Broadcaster on issues where Sport and Politics overlap. Cricket, Jazz and dog lover. 
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Sukru Cildir @sukrucildir.bsky.social Dr. in IR at Kocaeli University // Lancaster University Alumnus (PhD)// Interested in oil politics, Saudi-Iranian Relations, Historical Sociology
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Allison West @allisonrwest.bsky.social Senior Legal Advisor @ecchr.bsky.social | Int'l law & human rights politics & praxis, detention & NAWA (MENA), freedom dreams
Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
John Allen Gay @johnallengay.bsky.social Executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society. Interested in Iran, the Middle East, and U.S. foreign policy.
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
prop @jailrespecter.bsky.social we have you surrounded. come out and drink your corn syrup
Francesco Belcastro @drfrancescobelc.bsky.social Academic at Derby UNI (UK), trade unionist, activist, podcaster at
@footpolpodcast.bsky.social
Politics, Football, Football and Politics, Other Sports, More Politics, Bilad-Ash-Sham and Med.
Ilan Zalayat @ilanzalayat.bsky.social Middle East scholar, focus on the Gulf states, Political Islam, Shi’ism | Geopolitical Analyst | PhD Candidate at Tel Aviv University | Fellow at INSS & Dayan Center
FC Garvey @fcgarv.bsky.social UK Advocacy for Reporters Without Borders.
Posting about politics, press freedoms & human rights - powered by an excessive amount of coffee. Former Caabu, former OSINT-er, former Cantab. Views are mine alone.
John Nagle @johnnagle1.bsky.social Academic with an interest in divided cities, protest and power-sharing.
Jen Bagelman @bagelwoman.bsky.social Political Geography Prof @NCL_Geography. Passionate about: surf, feminism, anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. Deputy Director @NCLsocsciences
Stella Morgana @stellamorgana.bsky.social Academic Publishing Ethics Expert at Elsevier (Amsterdam)
emily @soupmuse.bsky.social lawyer. human rights and civilian protection. forever Arabic student.
conscientious objector to “AI”
our liberation is bound together.
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Amjed Rasheed ئەمجەد رەشید @amjedrasheed.bsky.social @DSD_Kings @DefAcUK Fellow @KingsMiddleEast
Jacob Eriksson @drjeriksson.bsky.social Lecturer in Post-war Recovery Studies, Dept of Politics & IR, Uni of York @uoypolitics.bsky.social Heavily Anglicised Swede. RTs = hmm, interesting
Reinoud Leenders @leendersreinoud.bsky.social Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies, King's College London, Department of War Studies. https://www.reinoudleenders.org All views expressed are my own.
lextalonis @lextalonis.bsky.social Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.
Sid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social Football (mostly Spanish) and stuff. 
Mark Lacy @mark73.bsky.social Working at Lancaster University on FutureWar, SciFi, Ai, environmental insecurity : https://www.routledge.com/Theorising-Future-Conflict-War-Out-to-2049/Lacy/p/book/9781032113654?srsltid=AfmBOoojcONSjmB7ZYHc1fke5L7jTLmM65uOi99Ir4kqcxMX6rDZFGo4
@karenbingham.bsky.social @karenbingham.bsky.social 
Volker Perthes @perthes.bsky.social Scholar-Speaker-Advisor. Visiting Fellow and former CEO (2005-2020) Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
Former UN Under-Secretary-General (2021-March 2024), SRSG for Sudan (2021-2023).
Paul Ashwin @paulashwin.bsky.social I teach and research about higher education
Prof. Gregory S. Gordon @profgsgordon.bsky.social Peking University STL, international criminal law (ICL) expert, biographer of Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, leading authority on atrocity speech/incitement law, consultant on ICL speech-related crimes arising from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Sarah Zerina Usmen @sarahzerina.bsky.social Anti-imperialist, feminist writer and filmmaker.
“Portrait of a Fraught America”, Oct 2024
https://www.saffronjournal.com/journal/portrait-of-a-fraught-america
Dr Natalie Jester @nataliejester.bsky.social Lover of food, sci fi and dogs 🥨 🖖🐕 Feminist. Lecturer @ Uni of Gloucestershire: militaries, arms manufacturers, gender, digital things. Co-convenor @cawpbisa.bsky.social [she/her]
Web: nataliejester.com
Dr Dayo Eseonu @deseonu.bsky.social Mum| loved by God | Learner | Interested in racial equity and policymaking. I use creative and participatory methods to co-create knowledge with racially minoritised young people to influence policymaking. Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Lancaster Uni, UK
Julia Neumann @julianeumann.bsky.social journalist based in beirut__ covering west asia & north africa,
focus on gender, politics, urban culture & society
__correspondent @taz__
Renaud Foucart @rfoucart.bsky.social Economist at Lancaster University. IO, public policy, environment, experiments. Formerly ULB Bruxelles, Nuffield College, HU Berlin and Nottingham U.
renaudfoucart.com
Carolyn Jackson @carolynjackson.bsky.social Professor of Gender and Education at Lancaster University, UK. Works on gender-related violence in higher education, 'lad culture', gender and learner identities, fear in education. 
Laura Clancy @lauraclancy.bsky.social She/her | Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University | Author of 'Running the Family Firm' (2021) & ‘What is the Monarchy For?’ (April 2025) | Interested in inequalities, elites, digital hate
https://laura-clancy.com
https://culturesdigitalhate.wordpress.com
Alona Armstrong @alona-armstrong.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Environmental Sciences
Director of Energy Lancaster
Lancaster Environment Centre | Lancaster University
Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social Lancaster University’s official account. We’re a highly ranked collegiate university with a global reputation for teaching and research
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
Derek Hird @derekjhird.bsky.social Languages & cultures specialist and Head of School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University. Interested in critical language pedagogy, global education, and Chinese cultural studies.
Itxaso Dominguez @itxasdo.bsky.social Incorrigibly curious,eternal nonconformist. Digital Rights @edri + teach&research Critical IR/historic Palestine/SWANA. Here to learn&love. Usual caveats.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Michaela @michaelaedwards.bsky.social Mother and academic working on and interested in #EDI #socialjustice #psychoanalysis #careethics...... Lego, bread, feminism,and a chippy tea by the sea ⛵
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist
#BondianColdWar book
🇪🇺
https://martindbrown.substack.com/
https://www.routledge.com/The-Bondian-Cold-War-The-Transnational-Legacy-of-a-Cultural-Icon/Brown-Granieri-Blaive/p/book/9780367569365
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.