George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
Saganism @sagan.bsky.social Science. Philosophy. The cosmic perspective.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Bubblewrap Collective @bubblewrapcollective.co.uk Cardiff Based Independent Record Label / Releasing music from Wales since 2009 | Label Recordiau Annibynnol wedi’i leoli yng Nghaerdydd. / Rhyddhau gerddoriaeth o Gymru ers 2009.
𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social modular synthesist | 💫 (she/her) | linktree.com/loulayorke
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
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
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Digest of Middle East Studies @domesjournal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing original research on domestic and international policy issues in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. 
Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net For 20 years, Mondoweiss has covered the powers that sustain Israeli apartheid – and how people resist it, from Palestine to the U.S.
Banner: Palestinian children with a donkey cart on the beach in Gaza before the Israeli genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net
Wassim NASR @simnasr.bsky.social Journaliste spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes FRANCE24
Senior Research Fellow Soufan Center
Auteur de « État islamique, le fait accompli » (Plon)
الناسُ صِنْفانِ: مَوتَى في حَياتِـهِمُ/ وآخَرونَ بِبَطْن الأرضِ أحْـيـاءُ
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com
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.
Adria Lawrence @aklawrence.bsky.social JHU Professor studying violence, nationalism, and colonialism; cook; mom; singer
Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian 
Mehmet Yavuz @drmehmetyavuz.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ K-State | PhD @umanitoba.bsky.social | Peace and Conflict Studies | Balkans | Middle East | Queer Studies | Transitional Justice |Activism| 🇧🇦🇨🇾🇹🇷🏳️🌈🧿| Opinions are my own|
📍Manhattan, KS
Ryan Bohl @ryanbohl.bsky.social Girl dad. Dog friend. Chicken wrangler. Some Middle Eastern geopolitics. Upper Darby School Board member. Views (especially politics) my own; follow me on X/Linkedin for professional MENA analysis.
Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Ryan Lynch @ryanjosephlynch.com Professor of Islamic History @ The Citadel. Work on the Islamic state throughout history. Love tech + games + punk rock. Writing a book about history in games. Views my own. ryanjosephlynch.com
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social Scholar @univofmaryland.bsky.social. Islamicate Affect/Emotion, Sufism, Iran, DH, Academic Labor. Author: Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism. President @local6741.bsky.social; Part of @uam-umd.bsky.social, @aaup.org, @aft.org. Piscataway Land.
John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
Hannah Parsons-Morgan @beathas-ailsa.bsky.social African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History.
Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World.
BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE)
I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting. 
Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia
https://islamicorigins.com
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
(specifics @ profirmf.com)
Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social Asst Prof, global health. My book "How War Kills": http://tinyurl.com/How-War-Kills
https://yara-asi.com
فلسطين
Fellow, Arab Center DC
Fellow, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Co-Director, Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights
Rida Abu Rass @aburass.bsky.social Political scientist based in Canada | Palestinian, Israeli and Middle East politics | social movements, nationalism, ethnicity and race | He/him.
ridaaburass.com
Mohammed Alruzzi @alruzzi.info Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Bristol ••• Co-founder of Gaza Children Cinema @gazachildrencinema.org ••• Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Piotr Schulkes @pschulkes.bsky.social Middle East Consultant, non-resident scholar Middle East Institute, Oxford University Alum. Focus usually on renewables, SWFs, and banks. Love stats
https://visualmiddleeast.substack.com/
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Craig Perry @caperry.bsky.social Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
Summer Ahmed سمر احمد @summerahmed.bsky.social South Arabia (South Yemen) | Washington, DC 🇺🇸
Diplomacy, foreign policy & regional security.
Southern perspective.
Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social Historian of the Middle East, PhD @uarizona
Ottomaniac
he/him
property is theft
Hoping this all works out. Also @aschweig17 at "X" until it does.
Ghaliah Fakhoury @ghaliahfakhoury.bsky.social Ethnic Studies (ArabAm+AsianAm) & Sociology — identity, culture, media, memory | words, reflections, and music | En+Ar/ع
Dr Gina van Raphael @aliagvr.bsky.social Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜ME Studies — Historiography, Ethnography, Tribe)｜US Policy Intersection | Non Exec Dir UKG | NRS
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
Abdullah Al-shadli| عبدالله محسن الشادلي @abdmohshadli.bsky.social President & Founder of Osan Center for Media and Peace Analysis
🔗 https://osancn.com
Journalist and Yemeni political analyst
🏠 Hadhramout province,Yemen.
Twitter: @abdmohshadli
Bio:
https://osancn.com/who-we-are/abdullah-al-shadli
Sahar Alyafai @saharyafa.bsky.social Arab-American. My friends call me Watson. I'm not on Facebook. Mom is Lebanese, dad is Yafai. أمي لبنانية وابي يافعي بطلو تتمسخرو على حكيي ❤️ South Yemen #BookNerd
ilyssa Yahmi @ilyssa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris | PhD, Temple University | smuggling, borders, violence & (in-)security, identity | Former @USIP @DoDMinerva Peace Scholar & @XCEPT_Research | Sahel & North Africa
Nahla El-Menshawy @nahlael.bsky.social PhD researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt working on trust and Yemeni diaspora.
Forever in a grumpy mood. Fed up by colonial epistemologies.
I won’t hold back here. 
Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofGlasgow. Looking at migrants contesting borders/RLOs in Egypt. Critical Border and Migration Studies. I ❤️ Cairo’s Street 🐈 🐈⬛. Always missing NEPA Summer Bazaars. 🍉🇸🇩
Lama Mourad @lmourad.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CU_NPSIA
| migration, local governance, Middle East politics, Lebanon, research ethics | #FirstGen | she/her | Personal account & opinions
Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Political Science
@Yale. Formerly @MITPoliSci @HarvardWCFIA. Contentious politics in Jordan & Syria. peripatetic product of the garden state.
https://biffpm.github.io/
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Timothy Y. Loh, PhD @timothyyloh.com anthropologist of science and tech in the Princeton Society of Fellows, PhD from MIT in HASTS (History, Anthropology, STS), research on assistive tech for deaf people in Jordan, MENA, and Singapore. he/他/هو
www.timothyyloh.com.
Noura W. @nouwahby.bsky.social Urban researcher. Cairo always. Asst. Prof @CamUniLandEconomy. Previously w/ @CSIC_IKC @Dept_of_POLIS @Cambridge_uni @CamUniGeography and @GAPP_AUC. Editing @araburbanism
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East 
Naseem Tarawnah @tarawnah.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher. Monitoring cybercrimes and free expression in MENA.
Humeyra Biricik @humeyra.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Oxford
Working on political speech, text analysis and political Islam in Turkey
Nermin Allam @nerminallam.bsky.social Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓🏆See 👉🏼 https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html
and see my Linktree 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/arang.keshavarzian
Yasmina Abouzzohour @yabouzzohour.bsky.social Princeton University Research Scholar & Lecturer | Public opinion, civil–military & political behavior | MENA→comparative | PhD, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford
Mona @monalock.bsky.social Social Anthropologist. Specialist in children's rights. Israel/Palestine issues.
Research: IDF, Magav, Israeli police & children's rights.
She/her.
Zeynep Ertugrul @zepertug.bsky.social SSC Postdoctoral Fellow - Columbia University
Intellectuals, propagandists - early republican Turkey
Mokhtar Abdulmueez @aljabrimokh.bsky.social Yemeni journalist.. digital rights defender 
Kimberly Katz @kbkatz0710.bsky.social Historian, Middle East, Palestine, Jordan, Human Rights
Sedef Asli Topal @sedefaslitopal.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
Gabriel Gluskin-Braun @ggluskinbraun.bsky.social MENA Politics researcher, Arabic-English translator, Arabic instructor. 
Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com Postdoc Associate, Yale
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Harvard
visit me at www.aandeloucas.com
Basileus Zeno (باسيليوس زينو) @basileuszeno.bsky.social Assistant Professor; Political Scientist in the present/ Archaeologist in the past
Abdulaziz al-Sabri @abdulazizsabri.bsky.social Yemeni journalist
Photographer( Independent)
(Yemen-Taiz)
@mohammedalqadhi.bsky.social @mohammedalqadhi.bsky.social - M Matthew Martin @mmartin128.bsky.social Bloomberg News Bureau chief for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen. Based in Riyadh
David Roberts @drdavidroberts.bsky.social Security, politics, int affairs. Gulf, MENA & beyond.
Reader @KingsCollegeLon
Commissioning editor @CambridgeUP
Adjunct Faculty @PSIASciencesPo
Book: Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies https://cup.columbia.edu/book/security-politics-in-the-gulf
Tyler B. Parker @tylerbparker.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Mercer University (https://liberalarts.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/tyler-parker/).
Marie-Christine Heinze @marieheinze.bsky.social Co-founder and President of CARPO - Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient | All things #Yemen | #FirstGen | RTs = interesting!
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Alex Langlois @langloisajl.bsky.social Senior Editor - @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social's Democracy in Exile Journal | Michigander in Colorado | Writing Words | MA AU-SIS | West Asia/Al-Sham/US Politics | Progressive Realism/Military Restraint/Civilian Protection | shares/likes≠endorsement
luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social Poli Sci PhD. Kuwaiti National Assembly - Saudi Shura Council . دكتور في العلوم السياسية
Marwan Almuraisy مروان المريسي @almuraisy.bsky.social وما بكم من نعمة فمن الله ❤️ صحافي، ورائد أعمال، مهتم بالشغف والإبداع والابتكار، أحاول أن أكون مفيداً، وما توفيقي إلا بالله Journalist & Entrepreneur
Abdalhadi Alijla @abdalhadi.bsky.social Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Www.abdalhadi.net
Reem Awny Abuzaid @reemabuzaid.bsky.social PhDing and Sn. GTA@ Warwick Uni. MA & LLM @ AUC. MSc in sociology @ LSE. Interested in gendered citizenship, legal activism, LGBT+ and women activism in Egypt and Lebanon. 
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
Kevin Koehler @kkoehler.bsky.social Associate Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa; PI MENA-PERC project; research on political elites in MENA, particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey.
www.kevinkoehler.org
Hamdullah Baycar @hamdullahbaycar.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @KTU IR
PhD @ExeterIAIS I MA @HarvardCMES
#UAE #Gulf #Identity #Nationalism #Orientalism
https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/hamdullahbaycar/
Kevan Harris @kevanharris.bsky.social Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists / UCLA Iranian Diaspora Dashboard https://iraniandiaspora.github.io/
Regine Schwab @reginesonja.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Studying civil wars, non-state armed groups and wartime institutions. Interested in Middle Eastern Politics and Societies.
https://www.regineschwab.org/
Heather Jaber @heatherjaber.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern in Qatar. PhD at Annenberg UPenn. Graduate of AUB in Lebanon. Studying affect/emotion, digital media, and the MENA.
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Carolyn Barnett @cbarns.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @ University of Arizona SGPP. MENA politics, gender, public opinion, social policy, pol econ of development.
Sergio Altuna @altuna.bsky.social Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu @fabriziol.bsky.social Currently at Dublin City University.
Research on security, development, migration and diasporas, everyday politics.
Photography enthusiast, occasional runner.
He/him
Eva Leopold @evaleopold.bsky.social Political Scientist. Analyst. Writer. Researcher. IR. MENA. Iraq. HR. World affairs.
By necessity, some Swedish politics.
Tareq @teraqerat.bsky.social Research on Protests & Authoritarianism in Asia | Center for Conflict Studies Marburg | Coordinator BMBF project @postcolh.bsky.social | Principal Investigator DFG project @afpro.bsky.social
More:
tasyd.com
teraqerat.substack.com
Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. Managing Director Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey. Docent (Assoc. Prof.) of and pontificator on international relations. Opinionated. Painter.
Elizabete Aunina @eaunina.bsky.social About Turkey, random musing and my readings. Latvian previously in Turkey, now trotting around Brussels. Working on EU enlargement. ASU, LSE, St Andrews alumna. Views strictly mine!
Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social Senior lecturer of international relations at Bristol University.
IR theory and Middle East politics: f.dionigi@bristol.ac.uk.
https://t.co/CGcAdQY3Dz
Taavi Sundell @taavis.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Project MIGDIA (funded by Kone Foundation, hosted by the Finnish Institute in the Middle East & University of Helsinki)
Umar Karim @umerkarim.bsky.social Researcher. Interested in Gulf Studies/Saudi Arabia/South Asia
البدو من الأوقات- M Michael Knights @mikeknights.bsky.social