American Committee for Middle East Rights @acmer.bsky.social We're redefining how U.S.-MENA policy is debated and designed, grounded in human rights and democratic values.
Cate Brown @catebrown.bsky.social political investigations at @TheGuardian. formerly @WashingtonPost. power over/power to
tips: cate.brown@theguardian.com
Ahmed Attallah @ahmedattalla.bsky.social Executive Director of the Egyptian Front for Human Rights & MA student in EU Studies at UCLouvain
Arwa @arwashobaki.bsky.social 1 in 8 billion; Managing Director @Mideastdc.org
April Brady @aprilbrady.bsky.social 
Yasmin Omar @yasminoviech.bsky.social International Human Rights Lawyer.
Amr Magdi @amrmagdi.bsky.social Every act of telling the truth is a stride towards the collective healing of a society, oppressed and oppressors.
أحلامُنا أحلى مِنْ أحلامِهم
Researcher & writer: MENA, Human Rights, Policy.
Magdi.Amr@proton.me
with @HRW.org
Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders (2020-2026) | Adjunct Prof. at Centre for Social Innovation, Trinity College Business School | Founder Front Line Defenders.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/marylawlorhrds
Sofian Philip Naceur @sofiannaceur.bsky.social Journalist, currently Tunis/Rome, working on 🇪🇬🇩🇿🇹🇳🇵🇸 border regimes, migration, arms trade
Contact: mail(a)sofiannaceur.de
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
Alia Awadallah @aawadall.bsky.social Team 46. Daughter of Immigrants. Public servant. Ohioan. Tweeting about politics, foreign policy & defense. Personal acct / views my own.
Annie Shiel @annieshiel.bsky.social US Director at Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC). She/her. Views mine, RT ≠ endorsement.
Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social Policy analyst/advisor. Newsletter: stephensemler.com
John Ramming Chappell @jwrchappell.bsky.social Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Center for International Policy | Foreign policy and human rights lawyer focused on US weapons and wars | Burqueño | Views mine
Sarah El Deeb @seldeeb.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
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
Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com
🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
Middle East Democracy Center @mideastdc.org We work to free the unjustly detained and advocate for US policies that protect human rights and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Gohary @ircpresident.bsky.social Directing programs at the intersection of tech, human rights & media. @GlobalVoices.org Services Lead and Board Member. Alum: @AnmatMedia, @IFEX, AlMasry AlYoum, Engineering. Find me at https://mohamedelgohary.com
Mona Shtaya 🍉 @monashtaya.bsky.social Tech policy | Human being at large
Mohamad Najem @monajem.bsky.social Tech & human rights in the MENA region. Director of SMEX
Halem Henish @halemhenish.bsky.social 
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Amr Kotb @amrkotb.bsky.social actor, writer, New Yorker, public service enthusiast.
watch my satirical news show, Headlines with Amr on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@HeadlineswithAmr
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social Saudi Arabia and UAE Researcher @HRW • she/her
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joey-shea
Brian Dooley @dooleydooley.bsky.social Honorary Professor, Queens University Belfast | Visiting Scholar, UCL | Senior Advisor, @humanrights1st | Winner 2025 University of Oslo Human Rights Award | Views mine | No manels | He/They | Wiki bio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_J._Dooley
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Barak Ravid ברק רביד @barakravid.bsky.social Global Affairs Correspondent for Axios. CNN analyst. Washington correspondent for Walla. Author of Trump's Peace
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 
Mohamed Mandour @mandour.bsky.social Masters of Human Rights @Humphery School, University of Minnesota. MENA Researcher @Committee to Protect Journalists. #Press_Freedom, #Transnational_Repression, and #Tech_policy. Words are mine! 
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University | Wesleyan Alumn | Mixed Methods, MENA Politics
🖥️ mohameddhiahammami.com
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.
Suzanne Maloney @suzannemaloney.bsky.social VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
The Big Pharaoh @thebigpharaoh.bsky.social 
Ramy Yaacoub @ramyyaacoub.bsky.social 🥷 at @open-society.bsky.social. ex @timep.bsky.social. Rocket Scientist @EmbryRiddle. M.A. @ausis.bsky.social. Political Analyst. Scuba Diver. English, Arabic, y un poco de Español 🇨🇦🇪🇬🇺🇸
Twitter: @ramyyaacoub
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
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
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Solafa Magdy @solafamagdy.bsky.social Mother | Exiled Journalist | @Paris Citizenship 2020 | Courage in Journalism Winner 2020 @IWMF | Ex. Fellow @TimepDC |
Determined to share my Cellmates' Stories ✌🏼
نص بيضحك والتاني زعلان .. انا شيخ فلتان 🕊️
لينا الهذلول Lina Alhathloul @linaalhathloul.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
عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt
Samar Elhussieny @selhussieny.bsky.social #HumanRights defender and researcher| Executive Director @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social Forum Prev| Associate manager @Sutherlandcorp | Master’s @unitartu |MENA coordinator| @CFWIJ |
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Jeje Mohamed @jejem.bsky.social Holistic safety & security expert, press freedom, media risk advisor, HEFAT, physical, digital & psychological safety, advocate 4 all rights
Mostafa Fouad @mostfouad.bsky.social Co-founder & Executive Director @humena.bsky.social,
Diaspora Mobilizer,
Activist in Exile,
Legal and Policy Analyst,
Human Rights Researcher.
- (MENA-Focused)
📍Brussels
Maryam Al-Khawaja @maryamalkhawaja.bsky.social Award winning Bahraini/Danish Human Rights Defender; consultant, trainer and public speaker. 2013 Nobel Prize nominee. #FreeAlKhawaja @freealkhawaja
Elliott Colla @abumrouj.bsky.social المخوزق يشتم السلطان
Khaled Elgindy @elgindy.bsky.social Middle East analyst | author, ‘Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump’ http://tinyurl.com/y5qpl6bb 
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
Patrick Zaki @patrickzaki.bsky.social Human Rights Defender |
Minority Rights Researcher |
MA Gender Studies at unibo |
Phd scholar in scuola normale superiore|
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social