Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social Faculty & Research Fellow @ Stanford University Center for Human Rights & International Justice + Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab. Views mine.
Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social "the Pepsi of Austrian writing." do not be weird at me online. buy bumper stickers, from me, at https://mplwdnoveltycistern.etsy.com/
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
RezRezart@BlueSky @rezrezart.bsky.social Lover of three cities ,Tehran ,Cambridge &London.Politics ,history ….
François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social Nuclear editor @thebulletin.org. Fmr MacArthur Found. & Marie S.-Curie fellow @stanfordcisac.bsky.social. Fmr engineer in US/French nuclear ind. 1st gen. Father x3. Cello. Synthbass. Kyokushin. Autism. | Tips: francois@thebulletin.org Signal: francoisdm.21
Robert Wright @robertwrighter.bsky.social Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Writing a book about AI. Publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter & host of the Nonzero Podcast. https://nonzero.substack.com/ 
Nadine Farid Johnson @nadinefj.bsky.social Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Policy. Opinions mine.
Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social Iraq War vet. Former secret 🐿️ on Russia, counterterrorism issues.
MI —> MT —> WA. Still wanting to Occupy Wall Street.
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Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera
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Eric Brewer @ebrewer.bsky.social Deputy VP at Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previously Director for Counterproliferation at the National Security Council and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD at the National Intelligence Council. Personal account/views my own.
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi @rezaziaebrahimi.bsky.social Historian of Islamophobia and antisemitism at King's College London. Woke. Citizen of nowhere. Traitor to the Aryan race. Islamo-gauchiste. ✊🏽🇵🇸 فلسطین.
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@emmaclairefoley.bsky.social @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social 
Sassy CEO @sassyceo.bsky.social Nonprofit CEO in foreign policy probably trying to regulate my nervous system. Human Rights degree, amateur historian, proud Californian transplant in Laguna Beach; Currently battling breast cancer. 💪🏻🇺🇦 * Views are mine; nonprofit is nonpartisan *
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
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Patrick Carver Fox @pcfox.bsky.social Realism and Restraint - formerly JQAS & Security Dilemma
Harrison Mann @harrisonmann.bsky.social Former Army and DIA; resigned over Gaza. Associate Dir. Policy & Campaigns at Win Without War. Non-resident at DAWN. Tweets my own. @harrison_j_mann on X.
John Allen Gay @johnallengay.bsky.social Executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society. Interested in Iran, the Middle East, and U.S. foreign policy.
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
Nadia @nadianovibi.bsky.social Dutch-Iranian believes in and strives for Human Dignity, Inclusion, Truth, & Justice. Open Mind - Open Heart - Open Will ➡️ Most days 😇
Michael W Chamberlin @michaelwchamberlin.bsky.social Human rights | Derechos humanos.
President @ consultorasolidaria.org | Senior Fellow @
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New book "Quest for Loved Ones. Learning from the Mothers of the Missing in Mexico"
https://michaelwchamberlin.com
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
Ned Price @nedprice.bsky.social The personal account of a recidivist public servant — most recently Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and State Department Spokesperson. Previously with NSC and CIA.
Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social Chaos Muppet, Order Rising. CEO, ResearchCollaborative.org. Young(ish) Leader, Munich Security Conference + Friends of Europe. Former head of GlobalZero.org. Radicalized by basic decency. Made in #Iowa with parts from #Iran. he/him 🇦🇲
Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social iranian-american anthropologist & filmmaker I assistant prof multimodal anthro I EthnoCine collective I CoMMPCT collective 🐈 🚲 🧶 she/they 
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
Mariam Barghouti @mariambarghouti.bsky.social War journalist | writer
John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social foreign policy, international peace and security, nuclear weapons, antiquity
Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social EVP at @cipolicy.bsky.social.
Diana Galbraith @dianavgalbraith.bsky.social Interesting in finding new ways of thinking about the world. Supporting progressive candidates because they are the future, if we want one. MA from @Georgetown @georgetownsfs. Still on Twitter at @DianaVGalbraith.
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.
Hassan El-Tayyab @hassaneltayyab.bsky.social Legislative Director for Middle East Policy at FCNL
Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). A nonpartisan Quaker lobby in the public interest working for peace and justice for 80+ years.
www.fcnl.org
marral @marralsham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mshamshiri
Sara DuBois @saraldubois.bsky.social Communications professional talking (mostly) foreign policy, human rights, social justice. Baltimore native. Sometimes I'm funny.
Madeline Layne BOS Sept 29-30 | PHL | KOP | NYC | DC @madeline-layne.bsky.social Prof on indefinite sabbatical, childless cat MILF, flaneuse
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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
Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social Reporter, most recently with @huffpost.com and @talkingpointsmemo.com.
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Ted Regencia @tedregencia.bsky.social Filipino journalist from Mindanao.
Giorgio Cafiero @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social CEO of DC-based Gulf State Analytics • Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University • Adjunct Fellow at American Security Project • SME Gulf States • Public Trust Contractor 
@jabdi.niacouncil.org @jabdi.niacouncil.org 
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com Senior Adviser at QuincyInst.org.
Investigative Journalist at Large at ResponsibleStatecraft.org.
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Julian Borger @julianborger.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian, based in London
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
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Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, Iran, & women’s human rights. Writing a book on early 20th c. US-Iran relations. Philly sports fan. Visiting Scholar @ GWU IMES and HRC Oral History Fellow @ Georgetown 🗃️
Diako Hosseini @diakoh.bsky.social Teacher& Student of International Politics, Geopolitics & Iran's Foreign Policy.
Saeid Jafari @jafarisaeid.bsky.social Journalist & Middle East analyst/ Focus on FP & Iran
Hamidreza Azizi @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social Senior Iran Analyst at the International Crisis Group
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
Jenn Williams @jennruth.bsky.social Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy. Host of The Negotiators podcast. 
Damon Lynch @damonlynch.bsky.social Anthropology PhD, focused on just peace, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Central Asia, climate, urbanism, and cycling. Have Long Covid.
Sam Seder @samseder.bsky.social Host MajorityReport
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social Hosted by Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. MR is an unbought, unbossed daily political talk show. Awarded @PodcastAwards Best Political Podcast 5 times #LeftIsBest https://majorityreportradio.com/about
Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social Advancing a more peaceful, just & sustainable world by centering people & the planet in US foreign policy.
Home of International Policy Journal and UnDiplomatic Pod, The Iran Podcast and Black Diplomats.
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Dan Tannebaum @dantannnyc.bsky.social Oliver Wyman Partner - Global Anti-Financial Crime Leader, Atlantic Council Sr. Fellow (fmr OFAC & FRBNY) -- Husband, Father & PHL native - *views are mine
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - Iranian-American - inforezaakbari@gmail.com - I write The Guarded Domains, a Substack newsletter focused on Iran and the broader Middle East region. https://guardeddomains.substack.com
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/
April Brady @aprilbrady.bsky.social 
Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
Dr Cinzia Bianco @cinziabianco.bsky.social Analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations on the Arabian Peninsula/ Gulf and relations with Europe. 
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
Keyumars Kashani @keyumars.bsky.social 
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social Writer at Eunomia, Responsible Statecraft, and Antiwar
daniellarison.substack.com
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
John Glaser @johnglaser.bsky.social used to think at a tank
Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social Vice President for Government Affairs at @CIPolicy.bsky.social. Former US Senate staffer. Lawyer. Cornell alum.
Bio: https://internationalpolicy.org/about/#dylan-williams
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Mehran Haghirian @mehranhaghirian.bsky.social Director of Regional Initiatives, Bourse & Bazaar Foundation | PhD. Gulf Studies, Qatar University | MA International Affairs, American University’s School of International Service | Diplomacy
Rasmus Elling @rasmuselling.bsky.social Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian 
Jonathan Lord @jonathanlorddc.bsky.social Formerly: CNAS, HASC, DoD. Views mine.
Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social Pitzer prof. Former kindergarten teacher, & sometime swarthy bastard. I work on democratic movements and the politics of postrevolutionary schooling in Iran. www.shervinmalekzadeh.org
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/.
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com Human. Global. Security.
Nonprofit news about our life with endless war.
https://inkstickmedia.com/
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
Poya Pakzad @ppkzd.bsky.social Co-founding editor of Eftertryk Magazine. Devotee of fine cigars. Father of two extraordinary daughters. Palestine on my mind. Off the clock thoughts (=LinkedIn for professional networking) 
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Reza Shaer @rezashaer.bsky.social California based attorney, focus on #startups & investor immigration. Frustrated student of #Iran history & politics in my spare time.
Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
AmirIGM @amirigm.bsky.social Analysis/Commentary on Iranian Geopolitical and Military affairs. Founder of Iran GeoMil blog ✍️ Telegram http://t.me/IranGeoMil
Blog: irangeomil.blogspot.com
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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social Prez, ReThinking Foreign Policy.
Writer, researcher, analyst, speaker.
Co-author of Except for Palestine
President of ReThinking Foreign Policy
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Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social Guardian columnist, journalist, author, professor. www.moustafabayoumi.com
Kanishk Tharoor @kanishktharoor.bsky.social Author of "Swimmer Among the Stars" (FSG), presenter of "Museum of Lost Objects" (BBC), and Deputy Editor at Foreign Affairs. Pitch me at ktharoor@foreignaffairs.com.
Mike Amitay @mikeamitay.bsky.social On this rock for shits, giggles and fighting fascism
Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. East coaster in Ann Arbor. Internationalist. Any pronouns.
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Sune Engel Rasmussen @suneengel.bsky.social Security correspondent for WSJ and author of "Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation". Eyes on war, the Arctic, organized crime and terror. He/him.