Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social Free Palestine. No Zionists. No antisemitism. Millennial. Observer46664.86 on Signal, localobserver86 on Discord, and localobserver86 @ gmail. Not a serious or a professional account. She/her/hers
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Nadim Kobeissi @nadim.computer Applied cryptographer. Mainly working in the cryptography auditing industry, but sometimes venturing back into academia. https://nadim.computer
Alex MacDonald @alexjaymac.bsky.social Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly talk about Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, UK and Turkey. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
Bosphorus News @bosphorusnn.bsky.social Bosphorus News Network (BNN) - Your trusted source for news and analysis from Türkiye and beyond.
https://www.bosphorusnews.com/
Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social Civil rights attorney fighting for a more just and fair Los Angeles.
Former: ED @ Center for Human Rights, Inspector General @ Several Places, & Trial Attorney for Civil Rights Div. @ US DOJ.
Views are mine.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergioperez23/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Eric Reidy @ericreidy.bsky.social Editor & Reporter for The New Humanitarian, covering migration and Gaza. What I’m reading/listening to, editing, & writing. 
Luz Gómez @luzgomez.bsky.social Catedrática de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de @UAM_Madrid. Autora de “Diccionario de islam e islamismo”. Traductora de Mahmud Darwish. Escribo en @el_pais y otros medios
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe
@meenakshirv.bsky.social @meenakshirv.bsky.social 
The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social The political media programme on Al Jazeera English.
Dr Bamo Nouri @bamonouri.bsky.social #OneYoungWorld Ambassador, Author 'Elite theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States: How US corporate elites created Iraq's political system'
Elana DeLozier @elanagulf.bsky.social Executive Director, The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs || Adjunct Faculty, UVA || #Yemen #Gulf #Nuke
Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social Passionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social Associate Professor focused on global norms, IHL, and civilians in war | part-time baker | Proud Keralite
Sarah Copland @sarahyvonne.bsky.social Dedicated to fighting for women's rights and gender equality | Mother of 3 | feminist | writer | fighting for justice for my son Isaac, killed in the 4 August 2020 #BeirutBlast
Rev. Richard Bowles @richardbowles.bsky.social Queer Progressive Christian minister, Resistance Theologian, Managing Editor of Impact Magazine, writer, and cat-dad. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸 He/Him/His.
Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social Anarcho-anxious. Writer and Video Essayist from Beirut.
Latest video essay - Israel's Long War on Lebanon: https://youtu.be/Dkcwc0XfvTk
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aymanmak
@saraaridi.bsky.social @saraaridi.bsky.social NYT editor working with The School of The New York Times. Occasional writer. AMEJA board member. Vocalist/guitarist of alt-rock band Everstill.
https://linktr.ee/saraaridi
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold | latest: “Propaganda of the Victims” (https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2026.10037) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
American Task Force on Lebanon @atflebanon.bsky.social Our mission is to strengthen the historic ties between the United States and Lebanon 🇺🇸🤝🇱🇧
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
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
Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa.bsky.social Writer | Associate Director of Editorial at IMEU, US policy fellow at Al-Shabaka | words in: @washingtonpost.com, @latimes.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @thenation.com, etc.
Twitter: @tksshawa
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
@megsewell.bsky.social @megsewell.bsky.social 
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
Sonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social Doctoral researcher, ULB & ex Brown Fellow | 🔎 humanitarian organisations in the Anthropo/Ecocene, disaster management | 👀 on Turkey, the Mashreq, Maghreb & EU-Med | obvious nerd ~ sci/cli-fi for better futures
now 📍 Brussels, 💚 in Istanbul & Beirut
Omar Kadkoy @omarkadkoy.bsky.social Foreign Policy, Security, and Migration Program Coordinator @heinrichboelltr| Member @GAR_Dernek | IR Alumnus @METU_ODTU | Glory @ManUtd | My views & opinions
Jean Hardouin-Dompnier @jeanhd.eurosky.social Archiviste aux @ArchivesnatFr. - Archives présidentielles, histoire des relations internationales, monde iranien : compte personnel.
Laila Ballout @lballout.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ WSU | Historian of US Foreign Relations, Arab American Politics, Human Rights, Immigration |
Allison McCulloch @allimcculloch.bsky.social Political Science, travel, dogs. Not in that order.
Editor-in-chief, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics
Alaa from Gaza 🍉 @kareem91alaa.bsky.social I am Alaa, a mother from Gaza.
I lost my job, my home, and everything I built for myself and my son over the past years.💔
Help me get out of Gaza 🙏🏻
I need you, please 🙏🏻
https://chuffed.org/project/118709-help-alaa-and-karim-rebuild-their-lives
Jannis Hagmann @jannishagmann.bsky.social journalist and editor, formerly @taz.de now Qantara.de
Jenne Jan Holtland @jjholtland.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent for @volkskrant.nl, based in Amman. Eyes on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen & the Gulf.
Villages over cities. Blueskies in Dutch.
Author "De Koerier van Maputo" (2021): https://tinyurl.com/3v7ekrah
Centre for Lebanese Studies @lebanesestudies.com Collaborative, critical and respectful research on education, refugees, disability and social movements
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Thomas Bordeaux @thomasbordeaux.bsky.social Visual Investigations Reporter @CNN.com
Previously: Member @bellingcat.com Global Authentication Project
DM's open, Signal: thomas.411
The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) @syrianetf.bsky.social Building a free, democratic Syria through advocacy, justice, and humanitarian work. Supporting Syrians as they shape their future.
Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Architect // #DataViz storyteller // tech wrangler. Making useful stuff with #OpenData at the ONS. Occasionally #PalOpenMaps. Views my own. Portfolio @ ahmadbarclay.com
Gianni Elias Saada @giannisaada.bsky.social 🇵🇸
🇮🇹🇲🇦🇫🇷
Son of a Palestinian Christian father (Greek Orthodox, from Haifa & Yaffa)
and a Moroccan-Italian Jewish mother
In Love 💘, Taken 👩🏽❤️💋👨🏻
Father of a little girl
CEO, HEC MBA
Anti fascist ANTI-ZIONIST
raised since childhood in the love of the radical left
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
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.
ECIU @eciu.net The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) is a non-profit initiative that supports informed debate on energy and climate issues.
X: @ECIU_UK
James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. In the seventh year of my four year project, THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org
Currently reading Geoff Dyer / Homework
Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv.bsky.social BBC’s International Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
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
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Ellen Knickmeyer @ellenknickmeyer.bsky.social Foreign policy, national security reporter, AP. 
Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social senior correspondent @ Zeteo / contributing writer @ Rolling Stone / co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ / adjunct prof. @ University of Cincinnati / volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul / “a deranged hack” & “terrorist sympathizer,” says the Trump White House
Max Rodenbeck @maxji.bsky.social Israel/Palestine Program Director for the International Crisis Group and in earlier avatars Germany, South Asia and Middle East bureau chief for The Economist
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
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
Sarah Dadouch @sarahdadouch.bsky.social Currently reporting from Damascus for the Financial Times. Formerly Washington Post, Reuters. From Damascus, شامية قحّ sarah.dadouch@ft.com
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
Karlos Zurutuza @karloszurutuza.bsky.social Rojnamevan
muckrack.com/karlos-zurutuza
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kzurutuza@jotdown.es
Hugh Lovatt @hlovatt.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations.
Middle East analysis and European foreign policy, with focus on Israel/Palestine and Western Sahara. Mountain runner. Usual caveats.
Philippa Nairn @pnairn.bsky.social Exec Director of the Marie Colvin Journalists' Network, a UK charity supporting Arab women journalists (@mariecolvinnet.bsky.social). Please subscribe to our newsletter at https://mariecolvinnetwork.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=25406914ecf230f0d2e0fcd5
Mona Yacoubian @myacoubian.bsky.social 
Anisa G @mostfamouseggrolls.bsky.social 
Bente Scheller @bentescheller.bsky.social Specializes in Foreign & Security Policy, Middle East and particularly Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan. Author of The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game. FP under the Assads. Posts my own.
Syria Notes @syrianotes.org Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability.
Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908
@zkaram.bsky.social @zkaram.bsky.social 
Abdo Jabassini @syrianzo.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow - Central European University | Peace and conflict studies | Syria and the Middle East
@joudsally.bsky.social @joudsally.bsky.social 
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com Writer from Texas
Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com
Books: A History of Heartache (2026), You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)
Emmanuel Felton @efelton.bsky.social New Orleans native now living in New York and working as the race and ethnicity reporter at @washingtonpost.com, I’m also writing The Search for Black Mecca for Harper Collins. Proud alum of BuzzFeed News and @hechingerreport.org
Adam Baron @adammbaron.bsky.social Former niche social media personality. Baltimorean. Calabrese. Aspiring gadfly.
Future Security Program Fellow, @newamerica.org; Advisor on Yemen and the Gulf, @hdcentre.org; obituary writer, British-Yemeni Society Journal.
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Omar Waraich @omarwaraich.bsky.social Director, Open Society Foundations. Previously, Amnesty International and TIME. Views, entirely mine.
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Maja Janmyr @myrmek.bsky.social
Humanitarianism & refugees, past & present.
Prof. International Migration Law, University of Oslo. Also Senior Visiting Fellow, Lebanese American University & Associate Fellow, American University of Beirut.
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.
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
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.
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Natasha Hall @natashahall.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
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
@marykr.bsky.social @marykr.bsky.social 
Tom Copley @tomcopley.bsky.social Deputy Mayor of London for Housing • Hon FRIBA • Former London Assembly Member • Former Lewisham councillor • Geriatric Millennial
Diana Moukalled @dianamoukalled.bsky.social Journalist
Danny Hajjar @dannyghajjar.bsky.social 🇱🇧
Journalist covering Arabic music
Co-host of the Shik Shak Shook Ones podcast
Bylines: NYTimes, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR, The Grammys, Billboard Arabia, GQ Middle East
https://www.dannyhajjar.com
Hélène Sallon @helenesallon.bsky.social Correspondante Moyen-Orient pour @lemondefr / Middle East correspondent for Le Monde. Focus on Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
John Asbury @johnasbury.bsky.social Journalist. Dad. Home chef. New York Explorer.
Breaking news reporter for Newsday
Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social Covering humanitarian crises and emergency response in @UNICEF.org global press office in New York City | https://jenglishcommunications.com/expert-commentary.html