Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com War, politics, climate change & food systems, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Investigations @ThePublicSource. Author, Day of Honey. Writing (tor)mentor. Interested in everything.
RTs—and I cannot stress this enough—are not always endorsements.
@dinaaloi.bsky.social @dinaaloi.bsky.social 
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
Francine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social Teacher/writer/speaker/reader. CPA. Using tools so tools can’t use me. Dogs rule! Kundera: “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.” I Dig. https://TheDig.Substack.com @retheauditors Chgo-born, Philly-based She/her
Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social Writer
unamullally.com
www.sliverpress.com
Simon Allison @simonallison.bsky.social Newspaper person. Co-founder @thecontinent.org and The Atlas (theatlasnewspaper.org)
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social Irish Times Investigations Reporter
Author: Is Ireland Neutral? (Gill)
Email: conor.gallagher@irishtimes.com
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/vFjX_wFsoQvTxoBy_ZAqCY0U0axHI36uAuKVPIMx-EIDfetOPixH_J7tuEnJCXkB
Puk Damsgård @pukdamsgaard.bsky.social Middle East correspondent, Danish TV and author. Also roaming Afghanistan. Latest books Drageland, Arabica, Den Sorte Kat i Mosul, The ISIS Hostage.
Iona Craig @ionacraig.com Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula since 2010. Once-upon-a-time I trained racehorses.
www.ionacraig.com
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Ami Kaufman @amikaufman.bsky.social Producer/Writer @CNN 'Amanpour.'; Former Chief Night Editor @haaretz; co-founder @972mag. Opinions are my own.
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Ben Ashraf @ashrafzeneca.bsky.social Editor, The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
submissions: benjamin.ashraf@newarab.com
@sebusher.bsky.social @sebusher.bsky.social Bbc middle east reporter/analyst/editor
Ingrid Woudwijk @ingridwoudwijk.bsky.social 📰📻📸 freelance journalist in Istanbul for @trouw.nl and others
Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
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🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
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Liz Cookman @lizcookman.bsky.social 🖋️Correspondent: Ukraine, Turkey, Middle East
📍 Kyiv and Istanbul
🏆Best Print & Best Specialist Journalist, Freelance Journalism Awards 2024
🏆Amnesty Gaby Rado award 2023
Roba El Husseini ربى @robahus.bsky.social AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief
Former Syria /Lebanon correspondent- in love with Syria
Yale World Fellow
Raf Sanchez @rafsanchez.bsky.social Foreign correspondent NBC News. Covering the Middle East + beyond. IG: http://instagram.com/rafsanchez.nbc
Nataliya Vasilyeva @nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social A Middle East-based journalist and geopolitical analyst in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere.
William Christou @willchristou.bsky.social Writing for the Guardian in Beirut.
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
William Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
https://turkeybooktalk.com
https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Kareem Fahim @kareemf.bsky.social Middle East reporter
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Abbie Cheeseman @cheesemanab.bsky.social Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
Liz Sly @lizsly.bsky.social Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Jack Hewson @jackhewson.com Al Jazeera English Correspondent reporting from Iraq | Past lives in: Ukraine, Africa, South-East Asia | RTS '26 | DuPont '23 | http://jackhewson.com/showreel
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
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.
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
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Jack Moore @jfxm.bsky.social @afp.com editor, Middle East and North Africa desk
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Audrey Carville @audreycarville.bsky.social Journalist. BBC/RTÉ
Dublin Ireland
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh).
The Original Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Almoatassam Senoussi @alsenoussi.bsky.social Human Rights Researcher, keeping a close eye on #Libya.
https://linktr.ee/Alsenoussi
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
Robin Propst @robinpropst.bsky.social I teach by day and the rest of the time I read, draw and sundry such things.
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My timeline is filled with my own drawings, not infrequently related to Tolkien
Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social Head of the School of Law, Politics, & Society, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Ciarán Stewart @giffer1969.bsky.social 
Hala Gorani @halagorani.bsky.social NBC News International Correspondent. Former CNN. Author "But You Don't Look Arab."
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social Irish cybersecurity pro, author, speaker, and commentator.
CEO of BH Consulting, Head of Ireland's first CSIRT - IRISSCERT, former member of ENISA Advisory Group, & former Special Advisor on CyberSecurity to Europol.
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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Paul Bradfield @bradfieldpaul.bsky.social International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice and all things gaelic football.
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Elizabeth Svoboda @svobodster.bsky.social Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Contributing writer, Boston Globe Ideas. Words in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc. New book: THE ART OF PACING.
Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social I make sense of hard things.
Author of the bestselling books In Shock and After Shock. Essayist. #MedSky
Also Physician|Patient|Painter|Mom
Link to order After Shock:
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Alex Wright @alexwright.com Author of Empire of Ink (Basic Books, 2026)
Writer + designer exploring the deep history of media, technology, and the information economy
Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social Digital Expat. Author. Journalist. Speaker. Morehouse College Assistant Professor. 🌎trotting+ Searching for the ancestors with my own legacies 👧🏽👧🏽👦🏾
Order 📚: The Price of Exclusion (June 2026): https://bit.ly/4qcHeV5
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com 
Emily Midorikawa @emilymidorikawa.bsky.social Debut novel, A TINY SPECK OF BLACK AND THEN NOTHING, out now. Also the author of group biographies OUT OF THE SHADOWS, & A SECRET SISTERHOOD (coauthored with Emma Claire Sweeney).
Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
Niamh Humphries @niamhhumphries.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ RCSI GSM | health workforce researcher | health worker migration | health worker retention | qualitative methods |doctorretention.eu
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Dion Fanning @dionfanning.bsky.social Journalist. Free State podcast
Julian Borger @julianborger.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian, based in London
MSF Ireland | Doctors Without Borders @msfireland.bsky.social We are MSF Ireland. Our principles: Impartiality | Independence | Neutrality.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
Head to https://prospectmagazine.co.uk
Frank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social Former Irish Times Environment Editor and author of several books, including A Little History of the Future of Dublin. Interests include climate, housing, architecture, politics and Palestine.
Sheila Ahern @sheilaahern.bsky.social Researcher in TV & film, from Dublin, Ireland "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". (Maya Angelou)
Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, detention, and torture & ill-treatment.
Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social PBS Newshour Special Correspondent traversing the wider Middle East & Africa. Ex-TheEconomist. Mother of hounds, proud daughter of immigrants.
leilamolanaallen.com
@kojokoram.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • deputy chair of board @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
Granard Booktown Festival @granardbooktown.bsky.social A National Booktown in the Heart of Ireland
April 17 - 19, 2026
Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland and Longford County Council
granardbooktownfestival.ie
#books #festival #ireland #literature #writers
May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social Investigations editor @lhreports.bsky.social, formerly social affairs corro at The Independent
DMs open | email: may@lighthousereports.com | Signal: 00447919210950
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Abdallah Aljazzar @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social Palestinian. Storyteller. Rooted in Gaza.
Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social Editor, co-founder @dublininquirer.bsky.social.
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social Head of Communications at @theelders.bsky.social. Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
4th Estate Books @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Books for the independent reader. Bookseller Imprint of the Year, and publishers of Hilary Mantel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Day and Nigel Slater.
Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social Since 1846, publisher of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and more.
Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Brighton-based journalist, historian, writer etc — but mostly her dad.
Words in @derspekter.org, @972mag.com, Shado etc
🎙️ @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
✍️ http://hauntologies.net
Aubrey Robinson @aubreyr.bsky.social TV producer. Image maker.
Currently #TonightVMTV & #MondayGR
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
Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social Literary agent, submissions UKBookSubmissions@caa.com - here to highlight our books and authors
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Ahmad Abazeid أحمد أبازيد @abazeid89.bsky.social Syrian, researcher, 18 March 2011 syrian revolution.
Editor in-chief of www.SyrianMemory.org
#سوريا
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com