Natacha Danon @natachadanon.bsky.social Damascus-based journalist telling Syrian stories with eyes on Palestine | Bylines in Syria Direct, New Lines Magazine, Middle East Eye & The New Arab
News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯➔ Founded by a small group of purged academics, http://newsaboutturkey.com offers critical news, views, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe. Lover of random, untold histories. Explorer of the last days of state socialism.
ERC Project: Perestroika from Below
ZZF Potsdam, CEU Vienna
Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
Thomas Graul @thomasgraul.bsky.social PhD student, intellectual history @Yale. Previously @CamHistory, @Princeton.
Campaign against transnational repression @stoptnr.org [contact@] stopTNR.org • temporary logo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handpresse-1883.jpg
Zoë Flood @zoeflood.bsky.social Journalist/filmmaker – www.zoeflood.com/about2
3x BBC Eye Investigations, 9/11: Inside the President's War Room and more. Posts 🗞️🎞️🌍📸🗺️📚📝💆🏼♀️🌳🏊🏻♀️ and more.
Made/refined 🇬🇧🇿🇼🇦🇺🇧🇪🇰🇪
Libby Cherry @libbycherry98.bsky.social Journalist at Bloomberg News in Frankfurt. Writing about struggling companies in Europe and beyond.
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Bassem Mroue @bmroue.bsky.social Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press since 1992.
Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social Probably the only Wisła Kraków fan on bluesky.
Renny Hahamovitch @renny-hahamovitch.bsky.social Historian of the Space Age, lover of dive bars
Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social Political theorist, educator, translator. Teaching at Penn and BISR.
www.rafaelkhachaturian.com
Ayse Cavdar @aysecavdar.bsky.social “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
Wellington Square Watch @wellingtonsquarewatch.org wellingtonsquarewatch.org. Cover photo originally from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wellington_Square,_Oxford-366476053.jpg.
J.P. Loo @jpl.ac Za wolność naszą i waszą. Non-spherical Maschler space enjoyer.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Paula Erizanu @paulaerizanu.bsky.social Journalist & writer from Moldova. Often in Romania. Lived in the UK for 12 years.
Words: The Guardian, FT, BBC, London Review of Books etc.
@06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social 
Ahmed Elbenni @aelbenni.bsky.social PhD student in Near Eastern Studies
Searching for the Islamic novel @Princeton
Senior editor @muftahmag
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
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Connor Chung @connorpchung.bsky.social PhD student, MIT HASTS | bad takes my own
@csalih.bsky.social @csalih.bsky.social 
@carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social Director at the New Lines Institute researching military withdrawal, the captagon trade, and security in the Middle East | Adjunct Professor teaching on the crime-conflict nexus at Georgetown University | Past: MENA+Europe Analyst at Geopolitical Futures
Jordan Weissmann @jhweissmann.bsky.social Writer and editor
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
Diana Kruzman @dkruzman.bsky.social I write and report at the intersection of the environment, human rights, and geopolitics. Current @icwa.org fellow in Amman/Cairo/Beirut. Writing in @thebaffler.com, @newlinesmag.bsky.social, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social & etc. Californian at large. She/her
András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social Political & security analyst. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸. FPRI Eurasia fellow, chief editor of Bear Market Brief. Delphi GRC fellow. Ex-CEPA, ESI. Posts about 🇷🇺, 🇪🇺, illiberalism & its limits. My own views.
Здесь вам не Toth.
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Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
Killian Cogan @killian-cogan.bsky.social Turkey correspondent for the French & Swiss press @ Libération, Les Echos, La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune de Genève, Bilan magazine.
Based in Istanbul since 2019.
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Sam Martirosyan @sammartirosyan.bsky.social podcast producer of No Gods No Mayors @nogodsnomayors.com | journalist | views my own
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Katerina Szylo @katerinaszylo.bsky.social History PhD (DPhil) Student at Oxford | H-Ukraine Book Review Editor
Scott Maybell @haliphron.ink Doctoral student at Oxford working on the history, philosophy, and science of demonization. Junior Editor at Open Philosophy.
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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
Joshua Yang @joshuaqyang.bsky.social International desk @washingtonpost.com. Formerly freelancing @foreignpolicy.com @thenation.com @restofworld.org etc covering 🇮🇳🇮🇱🇭🇰 & elsewhere. DM for Signal.
Andreas Busch @abusch.bsky.social Prof. of political science @ Uni Goettingen, fellow of @NAWGoe.bsky.social, advisory council @WiltonPark.bsky.social. Works on regulation; privacy; pol. economy; religion; UK & German political systems. Interested in many things. Recovering bibliomaniac.
Ilkin Huseynli @ilkinmetdan.bsky.social Political philosopher. https://ilkinhuseynli.com/
ASIAC Studies on Central Asia & Caucasus in Italy @asiacitalia.bsky.social ASIAC is an academic association based in Italy that promotes knowledge exchange on Central Asia and the Caucasus. (RT/likes are not endorsements). Website and newsletter: https://www.asiac.net/
Alidost Numan @alidostnuman.bsky.social Historian by training, Green by disposition.
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Born at 332ppm
Giovanni Maria Pala @gmpala.bsky.social Oxford Researcher | Economic History, Tech Evolution & Digital Humanities/Scholarship
https://ocesh.web.ox.ac.uk/people/giovanni-pala 
Cesare Figari Barberis @cesarebarberis.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at ISGA, Leiden University. My research focuses on Emotions, Stigma and Ideology in the Caucasus and in the European Union
Ahmet Sözen @ahmetsozen.bsky.social Professor of IR - #ConflictResolution, #Peacebuilding, #ForeignPolicyAnalysis, #CyprusConflict #Turkishforeignpolicy YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@gumbaro19
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis @ingrigoriadis.bsky.social 
Sifarişsiz Jurnalist @elmishamilon.bsky.social Journalist, Media manager
The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social Updates and commentary on startups, economics, geopolitics, political risk, global markets and tech. Focus on Greece & Europe.
https://greekanalyst.substack.com/
Nemat Abbasov @nematabbasov.bsky.social #Azerbaijani socio-political, human rights and peace activist.
#Azərbaycanlı ictimai-siyasi, insan hüquqları və sülh fəalı.
(+), (-) 1°
Antimilli ünsür.
Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
Yunus Emre Erdölen @yunuserdolen.bsky.social Robert Kolej’15, Galatasaray Hukuk’20/Kamu Hukuku Y.L.
New York University International Law LL.M.’22
✍️Anayasa hukuku, geçiş dönemi adaleti, seçimler
Samira Alakbarli @samiraalakbarli.bsky.social 
@nuraay.bsky.social @nuraay.bsky.social KU | Llb28 | Leftist | Feminist | 18 yo | 1312
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Mark S. Cogan @markscogan.bsky.social - Associate Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies at Kansai Gaidai University
- Senior Associated Research Fellow at @isdp-sweden.bsky.social
- Former #UN in SE Asia, Africa, Middle East
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www.markscogan.com
Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science, professor |
global intellectual history | Marxism | Lukács
Will not follow back anonymous accounts.
https://atesuslu.com/en
@keremoxford.bsky.social @keremoxford.bsky.social 
Ayla Albayrak @aylushka.bsky.social Journalist; STT news agency in Finland, mostly foreign news. Previously in Istanbul, Turkey with The Wall Street Journal / Yle / Helsingin Sanomat in Istanbul. Third culture kid. Posts in English, Finnish, Turkish
Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
Kenan Cruz Çilli @kenancruzcilli.bsky.social London-based writer & analyst | Interested in history, languages, cultures of Ottoman Empire & Turkey 
Harrison Blackman @hblackman.bsky.social A shamus of the tiger sort. Journalist at California Post. Suspense, Noir, Mediterranean. Fulbright, WGA, MFA, Princeton. Substack: THE USONIAN. Upcoming Podcast: PASSPORT NOIR.
Ayush Noori @ayushnoori.bsky.social Rhodes Scholar and student at Harvard researching AI for neuroscience to improve human health. Posts/RT = my own.
Matthew Kendrick @matthewkendrick.bsky.social Co-Host and Producer, This Week on ICE Podcast | Formerly Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN, GZERO, Aspen Public Radio | Fulbright Korea 2014-2015 | 🇺🇸/🇦🇹 via 🇨🇱🇨🇳🇰🇷
Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen @annexnguyen.bsky.social Rhodes Scholar, ⚜️ & 🛡️2024 | Kennedy Trust DPhil Candidate @ox.ac.uk | Ophthalmology Resident @utoronto.ca | MD, CM @mcgill.ca
Lucy Tu @lucyttu.bsky.social Rhodes Scholar @ Oxford Law • Midwest Native • Health & science writer w/words in Scientific American, The Atlantic, The Guardian…🥼🧬
ਅਕਸ਼ਜ Akshaj, (they/he/elle/él) @cevahirulebrar.bsky.social DPhil-ing Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford (MPhil Islamic Art '25)
Ottomans, Uzbeks and everything in between.
Oxford-Nizami Ganjavi Scholar, Khalili Research Centre+New College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Krystal Knapp @krystalknapp.bsky.social Investigative journalist in Mercer County, New Jersey. Founder of https://planetprinceton.com and https://jerseyvindicator.org
Contact me securely on Signal: 1-609-216-6627.
Jordan Rothschild @jordanr1nyc.bsky.social Doctoral Student, Sociology of ✡️ in 🇩🇪 at Oxford
David @querydavid.bsky.social Powered by coffee and tiny notebooks, now in Bangkok/Vietnam.
International development and humanitarian stuff and public policy. Also Muay Thai. 🥊
Migrating from the former bird app (@queerdavid) 🏳️🌈 views my own
Thomas Müller-Färber @tmuefae.bsky.social Lead Intl. Affairs Protestant Academy LOCCUM Dialogues on security/peace issues (#ArmsControl #MENA #EastEurope) Ex: @diplo.de @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social @swp-berlin.org
https://www.loccum.de/profil/thomas-mueller-faerber
Consuelo Amat @consueloamat.bsky.social SNF Agora Institute Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Views my own.
Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR
quirkglobalstrategies.com
linkedin.com/in/christinequirk
Quirkglobalstrategies: Substack
Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social Now: PhD Comp Lit at Stanford. Prev: geography & comp lit at Oxford, Princeton ('21), Reuters in 🇧🇷. Born 🇰🇷 raised 🇭🇰. https://www.jimin-kang.com/
Maria Eliades @mariainistanbul.bsky.social Host and EP of Our Pandora's Box podcast, founder of Pentelic Productions, and writer.
Sometime İstanbullu/Politissa; Greek-American; lover of all things Greco-Turkish.
Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social Historian of European colonialism and modern Africa @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social & @Wadhamcollege.bsky.social. Working on Mau Mau, anticolonialism, infrastructure, and Maasai history.
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
@fuadshahbazov.bsky.social @fuadshahbazov.bsky.social Mostly Geopolitics I #CheveningFCDO Scholar I Formerly with #CfSC #DanielMorganGS, #SAM_Baku, #GlobalMedia I MSc. Terrorism #Bergamo_Univ I MSc. Defense #Durham_SGIA I MA. Political Science #VMU I Strictly Personal ©
Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social Director of Middle East Institute's Turkish Program / Author of Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria.
Dr Frank Maracchione - 马峰澜 @frankmaracchione.bsky.social Postdoc SOAS University of London - Global Political Economy, South-South development, China, Central Asia, Uzbekistan. With SPERI - Sheffield Pol Economy Inst and Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. (he/him)- S Sonia @soniarao.bsky.social
@easlanov.bsky.social @easlanov.bsky.social 
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social /// c18–19th migration control and border surveillance in France, Britain, colonies
Samuel Doveri Vesterbye @samueljsdv.bsky.social Director of European Neighbourhood Council | Author of Security Threats along EU’s 🇪🇺 Eastern Flanks (Palgrave: London) | #CentralAsia #Caucasus #Türkiye #MENA | Independence | Danish 🇩🇰🇪🇺 & Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social sciences po (ba'18), leiden (ma'20), now sfu. ottoman history, religion, material culture, archery, istanbul (şevketlü/mehabetlü/kerametlü) △☽☼
https://www.sfu.ca/history/graduate/grad-students/phd/berk-metin.html
Duc Phan @duc-mp.bsky.social Princeton University '23 (maths) *29 (econ) | TEC
Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History, University of Exeter (Cornwall). Historian of the Pacific and decolonisation, interested in anticolonial and environmental protest. She/her. www.emmakluge.com- D Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social Journalism professor, former mid East correspondent for NPR, Substack author
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Fred Lange-Lumetsberger @fredlanlum.bsky.social Historian based in Vienna. Mostly SEE/Balkans/YU... | Research on the Drina River
Univ Regensburg | WU Vienna
Map Enthusiast, Pro Cycling Spectator
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social chairman of the overseas committee for the promotion and defence of british interests | nanny-statist | anglican protestant (TEC) | grad student somewhere (econ)
Philippians 2:12-13 | Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
Andreas T @neuron-soup.bsky.social physics
Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him.
Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social Bostonian expat living in New York. Human rights. Academic freedom. Languages/linguistics. Russia, Central/Inner Asia. Politics of memory/commemoration. Books. The occasional lighthouse. Personal account, views expressed are my own. Repost≠endorsement. 🇺🇦🍉
Mahammad Mehdiyev @mehdiyevmd.bsky.social Researcher and cartographer, with a focus on the South Caucasus, post-Soviet states, and the Middle East. Research Fellow at @Topcenterorg.
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
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