Daniel Akech Thiong @jongethon.bsky.social Senior Analyst, South Sudan @Crisisgroup|Books: The Politics of Fear in South Sudan (Zed, 2021) |Climate Shocks & Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Winthrop Rodgers @wrodgers2.bsky.social Journalist and analyst focused on Kurdistan and Iraq | Virginian | Bates College and Queen's University Belfast | Washington Capitals and Washington Spirit |
Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social Damascus-based New Yorker obsessed with Cape Breton (and Syria)
Author of This Week in Northern Syria newsletter, regular open sourced updates on northern Aleppo and SDF-controlled eastern Syria:
https://akmckeever.substack.com
Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. Peruvian. English / Español / Português
Ali Velshi @velshi.com Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
Lahib Higel @lahibhigel.bsky.social Interim Deputy Director, MENA. International Crisis Group.
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
Chatham House Middle East and North Africa @chmenap.bsky.social The Middle East and North Africa Programme @chathamhouse.bsky.social | A world-leading centre for analysis, policy research and debate on the MENA region.
🔗 kalam.chathamhouse.org
Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social Commentator on Middle East, international politics & Director of @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. (Views mine alone)
RAND Europe @randeurope.org RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research institute that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis, in Europe and beyond. Read our research and commentaries at randeurope.org
CSIS Middle East @mideast.csis.org The CSIS Middle East Program focuses on the drivers of change in the region and is led by Mona Yacoubian. Follows/RTs ≠ endorsements.
Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social Investigative journalist @OCCRP.org
ZackKopplin@Protonmail.com, Zachary.Kopplin@occrp.org Signal: +1-225-715-5946 (Opinions my own)
Jenn Williams @jennruth.bsky.social Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy. Host of The Negotiators podcast. 
Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia.
Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods.
Past: RAND and CPOST.
Wolves. Lynx.
www.erikemueller.com
David Clay @davidclay.bsky.social British diplomat. Currently Consul-General in Boston. Posting occasionally about the history of diplomacy, negotiation and great books.
Imtiaz Tyab CBS @imtiaztyab.bsky.social CBS News Senior Foreign Correspondent
Rachael Thorn @rachaelthorn.bsky.social BBC News Producer in the Middle East
Levent Kemal @leventkemal.bsky.social Journalist - Analyst Conflict zones, terrorism, and security
Bylines at @MiddleEastEye @AJStudies @ActaFabulae
Circassian
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
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
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos.bsky.social Provincial drudge 
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social 
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
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
Steven A. Cook @stevenacook.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own. 
Mona Seif @monasosh.bsky.social This time I won't run after anything, you will find me playing with ducks.
Scientist, Human Rights Defender, Cat Decipherer, and Mother 💛
#FreeAlaa 
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.
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
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.- M @madamasr.bsky.social @madamasr.bsky.social
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
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/
Wasil Ali - واصل علي @wasilalitaha.bsky.social Formerly deputy editor in chief w/ @SudanTribune_EN @Axios contributor. Married 👫 Warning: I have very thick skin
Wael Abbas @waelabbas.bsky.social Multiple Award-Winning Journalist and Blogger
P.S.: you have to go be 18+ to follow!
اللي في قلبي على تويتري
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
Research Lead Kawaakibi Foundation
KULNA coming soon @kulna.bsky.social
Author: "The Middle East Crisis Factory".
Interview requests: press@kawaakibi.org
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Refugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social - Being a refugee is not a crime!
- Seeking asylum is a human right!
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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
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 
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Alex Sanz @alexsanz.bsky.social Alex Sanz is the managing editor of @cbsatlanta.bsky.social. He is on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a mentor at Military Veterans in Journalism.
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
Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
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.
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.
Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social Progressive; political analyst (US/Middle East, Palestine/Israel). Formerly at IMEU, AAI, & Al Jazeera. Into MMA. Views are mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇸
Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
Katherine Zimmerman @katiezimmerman.bsky.social Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups.
katherinezimmerman.substack.com
Rola El-Husseini @rola-husseini.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
ME politics- gender- conflict
She/her
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net
Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS.
Maintained by @danni.id
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Jadaliyya @jadaliyya.bsky.social Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.- F Free Alaa @freealaa.bsky.social Campaign to free imprisoned democracy activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Maverick @ahmadfahmy.bsky.social Obsessed with Justice. Sherlock is my superhero. Philosophy,Music,Model thinker, #INTP, #Jan25, #Messi #Federer. Civlization peaked with Leone's westerns.
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
@elazhary.bsky.social @elazhary.bsky.social Co-founder and lawyer at @Masaar.bsky.social 
Masaar @masaar.net We resist for a free and open Internet.
Masaar.net
@ColinPClarke @colinpclarke.bsky.social I study terrorism, geopolitics, international security
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer a couple times. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Bruce Hoffman @hoffmanbruce.bsky.social I have been studying terrorism & insurgency for 50 years and am a senior fellow @CFR.org. My own opinions. Re-postings are not necessarily endorsements.
David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social Global security consultant focused on terrorism, counter-terrorism & new technology (particularly AI): Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
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
Ayman Mhanna @amhanna.bsky.social Samir Kassir Foundation director. College of Europe visiting professor. EYL40 member. Wine reviewer.
Mohanad Hage Ali @mohanad.bsky.social MENA politics